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Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician with the biggest empty promise; and as any stockbroker or lottery seller knows, most of us will take a slim hope over prudent and predictable frugality. Hope, like greed, fuels the engine of capitalism.

Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood's Popular Quotes

I tell, therefore you are.

- Margaret Atwood

friendship was always contingent.

- Margaret Atwood

Faith is only a word, embroidered.

- Margaret Atwood

There is never only one, of anyone

- Margaret Atwood

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

- Margaret Atwood

You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see.

- Margaret Atwood

In the end, we'll all become stories.

- Margaret Atwood

Don't wait until you're 'in the mood.' Get into the mood by writing.

- Margaret Atwood

Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.

- Margaret Atwood
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