What did Margaret Atwood mean by: Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations. - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada Copy
+ As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Atwood, Darkness, Echoes, Past, 0 - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada
+ All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Atwood, Sentimental, Stories, 0 - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada
+ After everything that’s happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Atwood, Beautiful, 0 - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada
+ Every novel is-at the beginning-the same opening of a door onto a completely unknown space. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Atwood, Doors, Novel, 0 - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada
+ Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn’t happen, but other planets. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Atwood, Fiction, Planets, Science Fiction, 0 - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada
+ Is anything wrong, dear? the old joke went. No, why? You moved. Just don’t move. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Atwood, Dear, 0 - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada
+ She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy. Feraz Zeid, January 2, 2024January 10, 2024, Margaret Atwood, Events, Mercy, 0 - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada
+ Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them. Feraz Zeid, October 14, 2023December 29, 2023, Margaret Atwood, Fear, Women, 0 - Margaret Atwood Author · Canada
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
