Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
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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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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There’s always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
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I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
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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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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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In the end, we’ll all become stories.
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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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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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Although from you I far must roam, do not be broken hearted. We two, who in the souls are one, are never truly parted.
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It’s evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.
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I’m not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don’t know what to say. I know the unspoken rules of boys, but with girls I sense that I am always on the verge of some unforeseen, calamitous blunder.
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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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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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Canada was built on dead beavers.
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Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.
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