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.
MARGARET ATWOODToo much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
More Margaret Atwood Quotes
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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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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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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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I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
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The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you’re opposed to it. But when you’re writing a novel, you don’t want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that.
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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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We are silent, considering shortfalls. There’s not much time left, for us to become what we once intended. Jon had potential, but it’s not a word that can be used comfortably any more. Potential has a shelf-life.
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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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Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.
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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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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.
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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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I’m bad at picking heroes.
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I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.
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