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“[…] je suis assise à ma table en bois pour griffer tant et plus le papier avec mon stylo. Non, pas griffer - les stylos ne griffent plus. Les mots roulent plutôt facilement et sans bruit sur la page; c'est réussir à les faire couler le long du bras, c'est les extirper des doigts qui est très difficile.”

Margaret Atwood livre Le tueur aveugle

The Blind Assassin

“Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait - Estienne; C'est de quoi j'ai le plus de peur que la peur - Montaigne; (…) L'histoire, cette vieille dame exaltée et menteuse - de Maupassant.”

Margaret Atwood livre Le tueur aveugle

The Blind Assassin

Margaret Atwood: Citations en anglais

“Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck.”

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Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.”

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“You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn’t necessarily get you the truth. Two and two equals a voice outside the window. Two and two equals the wind. The living bird is not its labeled bones.”

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Margaret Atwood livre Le tueur aveugle

Source: The Blind Assassin

“Today on the way home, it snows. Big, soft caressing flakes fall onto our skin like cold moths; the air fills with feathers.”

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Margaret Atwood livre Cat's Eye

Source: Cat's Eye

“How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all.”

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Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“I see that there will be no end to imperfection, or to doing things the wrong way. Even if you grow up, no matter how hard you scrub, whatever you do, there will always be some other stain or spot on your face or stupid act, somebody frowning.”

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Margaret Atwood livre Cat's Eye

Source: Cat's Eye

“Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.”

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Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually locate. Someone must be having fun at it, this life of his; only, right at the moment, it wasn't him.”

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Margaret Atwood livre Oryx and Crake

Source: Oryx and Crake

“Now that I am dead, I know everything.”

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Margaret Atwood livre The Penelopiad

Source: The Penelopiad

“Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized.”

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Margaret Atwood livre Cat's Eye

Source: Cat's Eye

“I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.”

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Source: CAT'S EYE.

“The night is mine, my own time, to do with it as I will, as long as I am quiet. As long as I don't move. As long as I lie still. The difference betweenand. Lay is always passive.”

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Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.”

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Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 19 (p. 109)
Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it.”

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Margaret Atwood livre Alias Grace

Source: Alias Grace

“No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do too badly by one another, we did as well as most.”

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Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“Genius is an infinite capacity for causing pain.”

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Margaret Atwood livre The Robber Bride

Source: The Robber Bride

“Canadians are fond of a good disaster, especially if it has ice, water, or snow in it. You thought the national flag was about a leaf, didn't you? Look harder. It's where someone got axed in the snow.”

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“But my dreaming self refuses to be consoled. It continues to wander, aimless, homeless, alone. It cannot be convinced of its safety by any evidence drawn from my waking life.”

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“I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree.”

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Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my own heartbeat against the bedsprings… but there’s something dead about it, something deserted.”

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Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.”

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Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God.”

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Margaret Atwood livre The Year of the Flood

Source: The Year of the Flood

“Murderess is a strong word to have attached to you. It has a smell to it, that word - musky and oppressive, like dead flowers in a vase. Sometimes at night I whisper it over to myself:. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt across the floor.”

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Margaret Atwood livre Alias Grace

Source: Alias Grace

“EXTINCTATHON, Monitored by MaddAddam. Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones. Do you want to play?”

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Margaret Atwood livre Oryx and Crake

Source: Oryx and Crake

“In my dreams of this city I am always lost.”

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Margaret Atwood livre Cat's Eye

Source: Cat's Eye

“he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.”

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Margaret Atwood livre Le tueur aveugle

Source: The Blind Assassin

“Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered.”

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Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“You aren't sick & unhappy
only alive & stuck with it.”

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Margaret Atwood livre Power Politics

Source: Power Politics

“The truth is seldom welcome, especially at dinner.”

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Margaret Atwood livre Morning in the Burned House

Source: Morning in the Burned House

“At moments like this I envy those who have found a safe haven in which to bestow their hearts; or perhaps I envy them for having a heart to bestow. I often feel that I myself am without one, and possess in its stead merely a heart shaped stone.”

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Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

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