What did Margaret Atwood mean by: I’ve learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning. - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada Copy
+ Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable? Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Atwood, Indispensable, Temptation, 0 - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada
+ A word after a word after a word is power. Feraz Zeid, July 10, 2023December 29, 2023, Margaret Atwood, Power, Words, 0 - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada
+ I think calling it climate change is rather limiting. I would rather call it the everything change. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Atwood, Climate, 0 - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada
+ Your friend is intellectually honourable,” Jimmy’s mother would say. “He doesn’t lie to himself. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Atwood, Lying, Mother, 0 - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada
+ You shouldn’t do that,” said Laura. “You could set yourself on fire. Feraz Zeid, October 10, 2023December 29, 2023, Margaret Atwood, Careless, Dangerous, 0 - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada
+ The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Atwood, Literature, Myth, 0 - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada
+ Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Atwood, Book, Bottles, Sea, 0 - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada
+ This is how the girl who couldn’t speak and the man who couldn’t see fell in love. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Atwood, Girl, Speak, 0 - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada
Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
I’m not avoiding specifics, but I’ve always written songs from more of a global standpoint. - William Beckett Singer-songwriter
The best way to confront your fears it to stop avoiding the situation you’re most afraid of. - David D. Burns Author · USA
Your true self is beyond either relying on others or avoiding them in order to know who you are. - Kosho Uchiyama Zen Buddhist monk and teacher · Japan
It’s as if we spend our entire lives avoiding Jell-O but it is always there at the end, waiting. - John Grisham Lawyer
The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections. - Antoine Rivarol Writer · France
