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.
MARGARET ATWOODYou can pretty much trace when the big individual indebtedness kicked in, and it was when the credit card became generally available.
More Margaret Atwood Quotes
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I’m from the generation that had the boys’ door and the girls’ door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.
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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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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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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
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There’s always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
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I did … learn an important distinction in graduate school: a speculation about who had syphilis when is gossip if it’s about your friends, a plot element if it’s about a character in a novel, and scholarship if it’s about John Keats.
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I’m a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don’t like multitasking. When I’m doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.
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I’m bad at picking heroes.
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And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.
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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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Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.
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It’s evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.
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Although from you I far must roam, do not be broken hearted. We two, who in the souls are one, are never truly parted.
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Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
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I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
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