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.
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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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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And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.
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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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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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Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
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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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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 was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.
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It’s evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.
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Maybe that’s what love is, I thought: it’s being pissed off.
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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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The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history.
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Canada was built on dead beavers.
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In the end, we’ll all become stories.
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