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.
MARGARET ATWOODToo much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
More Margaret Atwood Quotes
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Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
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Canada was built on dead beavers.
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I’m bad at picking heroes.
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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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In the end, we’ll all become stories.
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Immortality,’ said Crake, ‘ is a concept. If you take ‘mortality’ as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then ‘immortality’ is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you’ll be.
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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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Maybe that’s what love is, I thought: it’s being pissed off.
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Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they’re not rich, or aristocratic, they shuffle around. They’re a group phenomenon, they’re not very fast, they’re quite sickly. So what’s the pleasure of being one?
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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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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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There’s always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
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Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.
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It’s evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.
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