Margaret Atwood Frases famosas
Margaret Atwood apud Dad Squarisi, (6 de agosto de 2006 - "Dicas de português - Escrever é...". Correio Braziliense, Caderno C, p. 4.)
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Citações de pessoas de Margaret Atwood
“As pessoas esquecem-se sempre das profecias a menos que se realizem.”
na obra "O Assassino Cego", 2000
“Escrever é uma maneira de a voz sobreviver à pessoa”
Margaret Atwood apud Dad Squarisi, (6 de agosto de 2006 - "Dicas de português - Escrever é...". Correio Braziliense, Caderno C, p. 4.)
Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood frases e citações
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“O que você não souber, não lhe trará sofrimento.”
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“Ignorar não é o mesmo que ignorância, exige esforço da nossa parte.”
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Margaret Atwood: Frases em inglês
“You can think clearly only with your clothes on.”
Fonte: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 24 (p. 143)
Fonte: The Handmaid's Tale
“I am not your justification for existence.”
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“If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.”
Fonte: Alias Grace
“What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.”
Fonte: The Year of the Flood
“There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.”
Fonte: The Blind Assassin
“I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea.”
Fonte: Cat's Eye
Surfacing (1972) p. 107
The premise for this quote is now known to be a linguistic myth stemming from the early 20th century work of Franz Boas. This quote by Atwood has been cited as an example of the perpetuation of this myth https://books.google.ca/books/about/White_Lies_about_the_Inuit.html?id=i-osjdNH3g8C.
Variante: The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love.
“This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.”
Fonte: The Blind Assassin
Fonte: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 7 (pp. 39-40)
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“We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?”
Fonte: The Handmaid's Tale
“Never pray for justice, because you might get some.”
Fonte: Cat's Eye
“I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.”
Fonte: The Handmaid's Tale
“Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.”
Fonte: The Handmaid's Tale