Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.
MARGARET ATWOODShow me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.
More Margaret Atwood Quotes
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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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Don’t misunderstand me. I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and far more complicated. But sometimes it’s hard to put up with.
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The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you’re opposed to it. But when you’re writing a novel, you don’t want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that.
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Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,’ she says. ‘Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always collects in the long run.
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The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history.
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we lived in the gaps between the stories
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Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.
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These things you did were like prayers; you did them and you hoped they would save you. And for the most part they did. Or something did; you could tell by the fact that you were still alive.
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Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered.
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I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
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I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren’t very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.
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There is no fool like an educated fool.
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Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence.
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It’s evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.
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Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
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