Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.
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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Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
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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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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 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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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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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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I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.
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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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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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It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.
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I did … learn an important distinction in graduate school: a speculation about who had syphilis when is gossip if it’s about your friends, a plot element if it’s about a character in a novel, and scholarship if it’s about John Keats.
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Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
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Maybe that’s what love is, I thought: it’s being pissed off.
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I’m bad at picking heroes.
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