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Margaret Atwood 348
Canadian writer 1939Related quotes

“Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.”
Casus ubique valet; semper tibi pendeat hamus
Quo minime credas gurgite, piscis erit.
Book III, line 425
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)
Source: Heroides
Context: Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

“Over the years I learned which hooks to use to catch which fish.”
Audiotape recording of Eichmann in Argentina (1957), as quoted in Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer by Bettina Stangneth (2015). ISBN 978-0307950161.

“She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets! It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!”
Source: On the Banks of Plum Creek

Introduction to S. Kip Farrington Jr., Atlantic Game Fishing (1937)

“The vidphone company let me off the hook.”
Source: Lies, Inc. (1984), Chapter 12 (p. 132)
“The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.”

“Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it.”