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The Tent
Margaret Atwood
Top 10 Best Quotes
“A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.”
“Time folds you in its arms and gives you one last kiss, and then it flattens you out and folds you up and tucks you away until it's time for you to become someone else's past time, and then time folds again.”
“Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.”
“No more photos. Surely there are enough. No more shadows of myself thrown by light onto pieces of paper, onto squares of plastic. No more of my eyes, mouths, noses, moods, bad angles. No more yawns, teeth, wrinkles. I suffer from my own multiplicity. Two or three images would have been enough, or four, or five. That would have allowed for a firm idea: This is she. As it is, I'm watery, I ripple, from moment to moment I dissolve into my other selves. Turn the page: you, looking, are newly confused. You know me too well to know me. Or not too well: too much.”
“Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf.”
“All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.”
“We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can walk, they used to say. In that case, where are all the souls? Left behind. They wander here and there, slowly, dim lights flickering in the marshes at night, looking for us. But they're not nearly fast enough, not for us, we're way ahead of them, they'll never catch up. That's why we can go so fast: our souls don't weigh us down.”
“I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.”
“I could end this with a moral, as if this were a fable about animals, though no fables are really about animals.”
“If you want what's in the package you should at least know how to get the string off, is what I say.”
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