It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.
MARGARET ATWOODIn the end, we’ll all become stories.
More Margaret Atwood Quotes
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Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
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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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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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Maybe that’s what love is, I thought: it’s being pissed off.
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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 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.
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Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.
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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 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.
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The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.
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we lived in the gaps between the stories
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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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It’s evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.
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There is no fool like an educated fool.
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Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they’re not rich, or aristocratic, they shuffle around. They’re a group phenomenon, they’re not very fast, they’re quite sickly. So what’s the pleasure of being one?
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