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I don't know how long all of that lasted because time was like rubber, it stretched out like a long, long elastic rope or a huge piece of chewing gum. Then it snapped shut into a tiny black square and I passed out.
— Margaret Atwood The Year of the Flood
Tags: time

Other Quotes by "Margaret Atwood"

What you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very much.
— Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin
Tags: philosophy-of-life, philosophy, pain, loss, lies, learning, knowledge, ignorance, hurt
There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.
— Margaret Atwood
Tags: within, every, writing, good
There are two types of freedom in this world: freedom to and freedom from.
— Margaret Atwood
Tags: life-lessons, philosophy, truth, life
Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
— Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale
Tags: education
Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find out what everyone else takes for granted.
— Margaret Atwood Dancing Girls and Other Stories
Tags: writing
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