Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
MARGARET ATWOODI 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.
More Margaret Atwood Quotes
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Maybe that’s what love is, I thought: it’s being pissed off.
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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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In the end, we’ll all become stories.
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Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.
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I’m not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don’t know what to say. I know the unspoken rules of boys, but with girls I sense that I am always on the verge of some unforeseen, calamitous blunder.
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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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Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
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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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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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It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.
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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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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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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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There is no fool like an educated fool.
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