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Margaret Eleanor « Peggy » Atwood, née le 18 novembre 1939 à Ottawa, Ontario, est une romancière, poétesse et critique littéraire canadienne. Elle est l'un des écrivains canadiens les plus connus, en particulier pour son roman The Handmaid's Tale, publié en français en 1987, sous le titre La Servante écarlate et adapté au cinéma et en série en 2017.

✵ 18. novembre 1939   •   Autres noms Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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Margaret Atwood Citations

“[…] 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

“Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.”

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“This above all, to refuse to be a victim. Unless I can do that I can do nothing.”

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Margaret Atwood livre Surfacing

Source: Surfacing

“I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight.”

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Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“Craziness was considered funny, like all other things that were in reality frightening and profoundly shameful.”

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Margaret Atwood livre Cat's Eye

Source: Cat's Eye

“We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.”

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Margaret Atwood livre The Year of the Flood

Source: The Year of the Flood

“Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge. The bridge was being repaired: she went right through the Danger sign. The car fell a hundred feet into the ravine, smashing through the treetops feathery with new leaves, then burst into flames and rolled down into the shallow creek at the bottom. Chunks of the bridge fell on top of it. Nothing much was left but charred smithereens.”

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Margaret Atwood livre Le tueur aveugle

Source: The Blind Assassin (2000) first lines

“The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.”

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Margaret Atwood livre MaddAddam

Source: MaddAddam

“I could end this with a moral,
as if this were a fable about animals,
though no fables are really about animals.”

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Source: The Tent

“I always thought eating was a ridiculous activity anyway. I'd get out of it myself if I could, though you've got to do it to stay alive, they tell me.”

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Margaret Atwood livre The Edible Woman

Source: The Edible Woman

“What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!”

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Margaret Atwood livre The Edible Woman

Source: The Edible Woman

“I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.”

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Margaret Atwood livre Surfacing

Lady Oracle (1976)
Source: Surfacing

“Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing.”

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Margaret Atwood livre Le tueur aveugle

Source: The Blind Assassin

“Where to start is the problem, because nothing begins when it begins and nothing's over when it's over, and everything needs a preface: a preface, a postscript, a chart of simultaneous events.”

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Margaret Atwood livre The Robber Bride

Source: The Robber Bride

“Because you may think a bed is a peaceful thing, Sir, and to you it may mean rest and comfort and a good night's sleep. But it isn't so for everyone; and there are many dangerous things that may take place in a bed.”

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Margaret Atwood livre Alias Grace

Source: Alias Grace

“A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.”

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Margaret Atwood livre Alias Grace

Source: Alias Grace

“These things you did were like prayers; you did them and you hoped they would save you. And for the most part they did. Or something did; you could tell by the fact that you were still alive.”

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Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are.”

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Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 41 (p. 268)
Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will.”

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Margaret Atwood livre Cat's Eye

Source: Cat's Eye

“She had no images of this love. She could offer no anecdotes. It was a belief rather than a memory.”

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Margaret Atwood livre Oryx and Crake

Source: Oryx and Crake

“The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.”

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Margaret Atwood livre Surfacing

Source: Surfacing

“Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past—the past of others, loaded onto their shoulders. Selfishness is their saving grace.”

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“I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will.”

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Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

“I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.”

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Margaret Atwood livre Alias Grace

Source: Alias Grace (1996)

“I thought my heart was pure. We do like to have such good opinions of our own motives when we're about to do something harmful, to someone else.”

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Margaret Atwood livre Le tueur aveugle

Source: The Blind Assassin

“You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves.”

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Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 30 (pp. 194-195)
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
Contexte: (She is reciting the Lord’s prayer) Now we come to forgiveness. Don’t worry about forgiving me right now. There are more important things. For instance: keep the others safe, if they are safe. Don’t let them suffer too much. If they have to die, let it be fast. You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves.

“But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men.”

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Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 13
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
Contexte: These pictures were supposed to be erotic, and I thought they were, at the time; but I see now what they were really about. They were paintings about suspended animation; about waiting, about objects not in use. They were paintings about boredom. But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men.

“There’s only so long you can feel sorry for a person before you come to feel that their affliction is an act of malice committed by them against you.”

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Margaret Atwood livre Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

Source: Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

“Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine! Mine!”

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Margaret Atwood livre The Year of the Flood

Source: The Year of the Flood

“All I can hope for is a reconstruction: the way love feels is always only approximate.”

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Margaret Atwood livre The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

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