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.
MARGARET ATWOODAlthough from you I far must roam, do not be broken hearted. We two, who in the souls are one, are never truly parted.
More Margaret Atwood Quotes
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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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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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I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
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Canada was built on dead beavers.
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I’m bad at picking heroes.
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There is no fool like an educated fool.
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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 did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.
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I’m a novelist, and idle speculation is what novelists do. How odd to spend one’s life trying to pretend that non-existent people are real: though no odder, I suppose, than what government bureaucrats do, which is trying to pretend that real people are non-existent.
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There’s always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
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It’s evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.
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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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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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Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence.
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Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.
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