Canada was built on dead beavers.
MARGARET ATWOODI was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.
More Margaret Atwood Quotes
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I walk away from him. It’s enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It’s like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will.
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Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
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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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we lived in the gaps between the stories
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I don’t think of poetry as a ‘rational’ activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me.
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The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.
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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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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
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Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
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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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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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If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There’s also the environmental argument for it.
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I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.
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Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.
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Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.
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