Маргарет Этвуд цитаты
Маргарет Этвуд
Дата рождения: 18. Ноябрь 1939
Другие имена: Margaret Eleanor Atwood
Ма́ргарет Элеано́р Э́твуд — канадская англоязычная писательница, поэтесса, литературный критик, активистка охраны природы и феминистка. Лауреат премии Артура Кларка 1987 года за роман «Рассказ служанки», премии принцессы Астурийской, премии генерал-губернатора Канады , Букеровских премий 2000 и 2019 года , премии Франца Кафки четырежды финалистка Букеровской премии. Относится к наиболее известным современным англоязычным писателям. Компаньон ордена Канады.
Цитаты Маргарет Этвуд
„Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.“
— Margaret Atwood, книга Surfacing
Источник: Surfacing
„My trade is courage and atrocities.
I look at them and do not condemn.
I write things down the way they happened,
as near as can be remembered.
I don’t ask why, because it is mostly the same.
Wars happen because the ones who start them
think they can win.“
— Margaret Atwood, книга Morning in the Burned House
Morning in the Burned House (1995), The Loneliness of the Military Historian
Контексте: Instead of this, I tell
what I hope will pass as truth.
A blunt thing, not lovely.
The truth is seldom welcome,
especially at dinner,
though I am good at what I do.
My trade is courage and atrocities.
I look at them and do not condemn.
I write things down the way they happened,
as near as can be remembered.
I don’t ask why, because it is mostly the same.
Wars happen because the ones who start them
think they can win.
„After a year or two of keeping my head down and trying to pass myself off as a normal person, I made contact with the five other people at my university who were interested in writing“
On Writing Poetry (1995)
Контексте: After a year or two of keeping my head down and trying to pass myself off as a normal person, I made contact with the five other people at my university who were interested in writing; and through them, and some of my teachers, I discovered that there was a whole subterranean Wonderland of Canadian writing that was going on just out of general earshot and sight
„When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.“
— Margaret Atwood, книга The Handmaid's Tale
Источник: The Handmaid's Tale