The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history.
MARGARET ATWOODScience fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
More Margaret Atwood Quotes
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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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I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren’t very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.
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Maybe that’s what love is, I thought: it’s being pissed off.
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It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.
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I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
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Don’t misunderstand me. I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and far more complicated. But sometimes it’s hard to put up with.
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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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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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I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.
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Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
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we lived in the gaps between the stories
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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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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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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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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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