You can pretty much trace when the big individual indebtedness kicked in, and it was when the credit card became generally available.
MARGARET ATWOODI read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
More Margaret Atwood Quotes
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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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The biggest debt is always the government debt; it’s always debt that government has run up on your behalf.
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Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
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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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I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
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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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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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It’s evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.
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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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Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.
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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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In the end, we’ll all become stories.
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I’m a novelist, and idle speculation is what novelists do. How odd to spend one’s life trying to pretend that non-existent people are real: though no odder, I suppose, than what government bureaucrats do, which is trying to pretend that real people are non-existent.
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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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The way love feels is always only approximate. I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.
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