Quote by Margaret Atwood
The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them

The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love. – Margaret Atwood

Other quotes by Margaret Atwood

Ive never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. Its probably because they have forgotten their own. – Margaret Atwood

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

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Age
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I dont think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. Its essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different. – Margaret Atwood

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relationship
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Other Quotes from
Snow
category

Dont complain about the snow on your neighbors roof when your own doorstep is unclean. – Confucius

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Snow

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt. – Sir Walter Scott

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Snow

Have you seen but a bright lily grow,
Before rude hands have touched it?
Have you marked but the fall o the snow
Before the soil hath smutched it?…
O so white! O so soft! O so sweet is she! – Ben Johnson

Category:
Snow

About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow. – A.E. Housman

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Snow

Random Quotes

What we see depends mainly on what we look for. – John Lubbock

Category:
Perspective

It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presence may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. – James Douglas

Category:
Daydreaming

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money. – Sophocles

Category:
Money

Bread and butter, devoid of charm in the drawing-room, is ambrosia eating under a tree. – Elizabeth Russell

Category:
Food