When any civilization is dust and ashes,” he said, “art is all that’s left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined by them. You have to admit that.
MARGARET ATWOODI would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.
More Margaret Atwood Quotes
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Canada was built on dead beavers.
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Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. Good for trade, we thrive on bones; without them there’d be no stories.
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I’m a novelist, and idle speculation is what novelists do. How odd to spend one’s life trying to pretend that non-existent people are real: though no odder, I suppose, than what government bureaucrats do, which is trying to pretend that real people are non-existent.
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It’s evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.
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Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
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Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.
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I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
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Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.
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It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.
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Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
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I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.
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Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
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I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.
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If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There’s also the environmental argument for it.
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How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation’s mighty seed – For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.
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