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.)
The Handmaid's Tale
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
The Handmaid's Tale
“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
“Maybe that's what love is, I thought: it's being pissed off.”
Fonte: The Year of the Flood
“She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.”
Fonte: The Blind Assassin
“I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.”
Fonte: The Blind Assassin
“Faith is only a word, embroidered.”
Fonte: The Handmaid's Tale
“The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.”
Fonte: The Blind Assassin
“As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.”
Historical Notes (p. 311)
The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)
Fonte: The Handmaid's Tale
Contexto: As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and, try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our own day.
“You can forget who you are if you're alone too much.”
Fonte: The Year of the Flood
“There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.”
Fonte: Oryx and Crake
“Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?”
Fonte: The Penelopiad
“I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.”
Variante: Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Fonte: Cat's Eye (1988)
“A man is just a woman’s strategy for making other women.”
Fonte: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 20 (p. 121)
“Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?”
Fonte: The Handmaid's Tale