I stand holding the apple in both hands. It feels precious, like a heavy treasure. I lift it up and smell it. It has such an odor of outdoors on it I want to cry.

—Margaret Atwood

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Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of...

More quotations from Margaret Atwood

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

—Margaret Atwood

She wasn't ready to settle down, she told her friends. That was one way of putting it. Another would have been that she had not found anyone to settle down with. There had been several men in her life, but they hadn't been convincing. They'd been somewhat like her table—quickly acquired, brightened up a little, but temporary. The time for that kind of thing was running out, however. She was tired of renting.

—Margaret Atwood in Moral Disorder: and Other Stories

Sympathy from strangers can be ruinous.

—Margaret Atwood

You refuse to own yourself, you permit others to do it for you.

—Margaret Atwood

We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

—Margaret Atwood

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There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame.

—William Langland

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

—Tom Stoppard

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Christ didn't say, "Love humanity as thyself," but, "Love thy neighbor as thyself," and do you know why? Because your neighbor, by definition, is the person nearby, the man sitting next to you in the underground who smells, perhaps, the man next to you in the queue who maybe tries to barge ahead of you; in short, your neighbor is the person who threatens your own liberty.

—Luciano De Crescenzo

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The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

—Rudyard Kipling

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Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

—P. J. O'Rourke

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