Quotes From "Bluebeards Egg" By Margaret Atwood

It must have been then that I began to lose...
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It must have been then that I began to lose faith in reasonable argument as the sole measure of truth. Margaret Atwood
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In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. Margaret Atwood
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People change, though, especially after they are dead. Margaret Atwood
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The house, and all the objects in it, crackled with static electricity; undertows washed through it, the air was heavy with things that were known but not spoken. Like a hollow log, a drum, a church, it was amplified, so that conversations whispered in it sixty years ago can be half-heard today. Margaret Atwood
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Religious people of any serious kind made her nervous: they were like men in raincoats who might or might not be flashers. Margaret Atwood
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Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will discover behind them something that will truly be worth seeing, she feels as if her feet are not on cement at all but on ice. The blade of the skate floats, she knows, on a thin film of water, which it melts by pressure and which freezes behind it. This is the freedom of the present tense, this sliding edge. Margaret Atwood
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He wants to see, he wants to know, only to see and know. I'm aware that it is this mentality, this curiosity, which is responsible for the hydrogen bomb and the imminent demise of civilization and that we would all be better off if we were still at the stone-worshipping stage. Though surely it is not this affable inquisitiveness that should be blamed. Margaret Atwood
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Have I been conditioned to believe that if I am not solicitous, if I am not forthcoming, if I am not a never-ending cornicopia of entertaining delights, they will take their collections of milk-bottle tops and their mangy one-eared teddy bears and go away into the woods by themselves to play snipers? Probably. What my mother thinks was merely cute may have been lethal. Margaret Atwood
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Have I been conditioned to believe that if I am not solicitous, if I am not forthcoming, if I am not a never-ending cornicopia of entertaining delights, they will take their collections of milk-bottle tops and their mangy one-eared teddy bears and go away into the woods by themselves to play snipers? Probably. What my mother things was merely cute may have been lethal. Margaret Atwood
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What thumbsuckers we all are...when it comes to mothers. Margaret Atwood