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.
MARGARET ATWOODConfronted 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?
More Margaret Atwood Quotes
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Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.
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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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The biggest debt is always the government debt; it’s always debt that government has run up on your behalf.
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Canada was built on dead beavers.
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In the end, we’ll all become stories.
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I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.
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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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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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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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Maybe that’s what love is, I thought: it’s being pissed off.
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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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Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
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Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
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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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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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