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Margaret Eleanor „Peggy” Atwood – kanadyjska pisarka, poetka i krytyk literacki, aktywistka społeczna i ekologiczna. Zdobywczyni Nagrody Bookera w 2000 i 2019, laureatka Nagrody Księcia Asturii w 2008, wymieniana wśród kandydatów do literackiej Nagrody Nobla. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. Listopad 1939  •  Natępne imiona Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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Margaret Atwood słynne cytaty

„Mężczyźni, którzy zmieniają nazwiska, to najczęściej oszuści, przestępcy, tajni agenci albo magicy; u kobiet przeważnie oznacza to po prostu zamążpójście.”

Margaret Atwood

„Każdy mit jest jakąś wersją prawdy.”

Margaret Atwood

„Muszę oddać sprawiedliwość lodówkom. Chociaż w pewnym stopniu inspirują marnotrawstwo, to jednocześnie stwarzają złudzenie, że zawsze będzie jakieś jutro, można w nich trzymać rzeczy bez końca. Ci, co mają lodówki, z pewnością widzą życie inaczej, niż ci, co ich nie mają. Czym bank jest dla pieniędzy, tym lodówka dla jedzenia.”

Margaret Atwood

„Dwa zła nie czynią jednego dobra.”

Margaret Atwood

Źródło: Namiot (2006), tłum. Justyna Gardzińska

„Jeśli znajdziesz się w sytuacji, z której nie możesz wyjść z godnością, udawaj, że znalazłeś się w niej z własnego wyboru.”

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood: Cytaty po angielsku

“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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Margaret Atwood

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

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Margaret Atwood książka Surfacing

Źródło: Surfacing

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

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Margaret Atwood książka The Handmaid's Tale

Źródło: 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 książka Cat's Eye

Źródło: 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 książka The Year of the Flood

Źródło: 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 książka The Blind Assassin

Źródło: 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 książka MaddAddam

Źródło: 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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Margaret Atwood

Źródło: 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 książka The Edible Woman

Źródło: 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 książka The Edible Woman

Źródło: The Edible Woman

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

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Margaret Atwood książka Surfacing

Lady Oracle (1976)
Źródło: Surfacing

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

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Margaret Atwood książka The Blind Assassin

Źródło: 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 książka The Robber Bride

Źródło: 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 książka Alias Grace

Źródło: 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 książka Alias Grace

Źródło: 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 książka The Handmaid's Tale

Źródło: 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 książka The Handmaid's Tale

Źródło: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 41 (p. 268)
Źródło: 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 książka Cat's Eye

Źródło: 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 książka Oryx and Crake

Źródło: Oryx and Crake

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

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Margaret Atwood książka Surfacing

Źródło: 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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Margaret Atwood

“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 książka The Handmaid's Tale

Źródło: 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 książka Alias Grace

Źródło: 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 książka The Blind Assassin

Źródło: 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 książka The Handmaid's Tale

Źródło: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 30 (pp. 194-195)
Źródło: The Handmaid's Tale
Kontekst: (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 książka The Handmaid's Tale

Źródło: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 13
Źródło: The Handmaid's Tale
Kontekst: 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 książka Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

Źródło: Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

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

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Margaret Atwood książka The Year of the Flood

Źródło: 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 książka The Handmaid's Tale

Źródło: The Handmaid's Tale

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