Take a pencil to write with on aeroplanes. Pens leak. But if the pencil breaks, you can't sharpen it on the plane, because you can't take knives with you. Therefore: take two pencils.
Margaret AtwoodEvery night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back the way they were.
It hasn’t happened this morning, either.
It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit.
Margaret AtwoodMoira was like an elevator with open sides. She made us dizzy.
Margaret AtwoodMe gustaría que algo fuera verdadero. No todo, eso es imposible, pero sí al menos una o dos cosas. Vaya, que el doctor Johnson refutó la teoría de la irrealidad de la materia arreándole una patada a una piedra, pero yo no puedo ir por ahí pateando a mis compañeros de piso, o a los profesores. Además, ¿y si mi pie tampoco es real?. Me parecía que a lo mejor tu lo serías. Bueno, si nos acostábamos. Pero ahora mismo eres totalmente irreal, sólo puedo pensar en todas esas capas de ropa que llevas, abrigos y suéters y esas cosas. A veces me pregunto si habrá más capas debajo, a lo mejor eres toda de lana. Y sería bonito, bueno, digo que sería bonito que no lo fueras.
Margaret AtwoodMots clés la-mujer-comestible
Of course (said Oryx), having a money value was no substitute for love. Every child should have love, every person should have it. . . . but love was undependable, it came and then it went, so it was good to have a money value, because then at least those who wanted to make a profit from you would make sure you were fed enough and not damaged too much. Also there were many who had neither love nor a money value, and having one of these things was better than having nothing.
Margaret AtwoodMots clés money love value worth
The temptation is to stay inside; to subside into the kind of recluse whom neighborhood children regard with derision and little awe; to let the hedges and weeds grow up, to allow the doors to rust shut, to lie on my bed in some gown-shaped garment and let my hair lengthens and spread out over the pillow and my fingernails to sprout into claws, while candle wax drips onto the carpet. But long ago I made a choice between classicism and romanticism. I prefer to be upright and contained—an urn in daylight.
Margaret AtwoodThere is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's something delightful about it, something naughty, secretive, forbidden, thrilling. It's like a spell, of sorts. It deflates them, reduces them to the common denominator where they can be dealt with.
Margaret AtwoodMots clés power powerful coping secretive
You're sad because you're sad.
It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical.
Go see a shrink or take a pill,
or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll
you need to sleep.
Well, all children are sad
but some get over it.
Count your blessings. Better than that,
buy a hat. Buy a coat or a pet.
Take up dancing to forget.
Mots clés sadness
All writers must go from now to once upon a time; all must take care not to be captured and held immobile by the past.
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