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

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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. – Margaret Atwood

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The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. – Margaret Atwood

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If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary. – Margaret Atwood

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Other Quotes from
Snow
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Advice is like snow — the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The larger a mans roof, the more snow it collects. – Proverb

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This is the Hour of Lead —
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow —
First –Chill –then Stupor –then the letting go –. – Emily Dickinson

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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

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Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of ones dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being. – Sigmund Freud

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Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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