Margaret Atwood Quotes About Temptation

Quotes about: Temptation

• Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?

  Margaret Atwood

  Temptation, Indispensable

  Margaret Atwood (2003). “The Penelopiad”, p.80, Canongate Books

• Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.

  Margaret Atwood

  Fear, Knowing, Temptation

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.195, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The temptation is to stay inside; to subside into the kind of recluse whom neighborhood children regard with derision and little awe; to let the hedges and weeds grow up, to allow the doors to rust shut, to lie on my bed in some gown-shaped garment and let my hair lengthens and spread out over the pillow and my fingernails to sprout into claws, while candle wax drips onto the carpet. But long ago I made a choice between classicism and romanticism. I prefer to be upright and contained—an urn in daylight.

  Margaret Atwood

  Weed, Children, Growing Up

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