A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of the life-threatening and dignity-destroying precipice you were walking along, you would switch into actuarial sciences immediately.
MARGARET ATWOODI read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
More Margaret Atwood Quotes
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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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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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we lived in the gaps between the stories
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Maybe that’s what love is, I thought: it’s being pissed off.
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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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Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
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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 best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.
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Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
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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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There is no fool like an educated fool.
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I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.
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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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I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
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Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
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