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Margaret Atwood

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
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Harvard Literature Subject
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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Art Light Shine
Confronted by too much emptiness … the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?
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Island Loneliness Water
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.
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Art Civilization Dust
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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Body Embroider Eye Leg
The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.
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Bears Close Kind Way
Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
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Century Novelist Once Time Upon
Maybe that’s what love is, I thought: it’s being pissed off.
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Emotion Love Piss
Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.
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Anxiety Book Character
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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Grow Survival Wood
Canada was built on dead beavers.
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Beaver Built Country People
In the end, we’ll all become stories.
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Biography Decade End Stories
Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.
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Change Handmaid Mean Tale
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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Air Love Sleep Unnoticed
I don’t think of poetry as a ‘rational’ activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Important Sound Think
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.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Fight Racism Write

You can pretty much trace when the big individual indebtedness kicked in, and it was when the credit card became generally available.

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