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.
MARGARET ATWOODWhen any civilization is dust and ashes,” he said, “art is all that’s left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined by them. You have to admit that.
More Margaret Atwood Quotes
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Canada was built on dead beavers.
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I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
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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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There’s always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
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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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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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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
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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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In the end, we’ll all become stories.
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Maybe that’s what love is, I thought: it’s being pissed off.
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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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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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When any civilization is dust and ashes,” he said, “art is all that’s left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined by them. You have to admit that.
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