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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I’m from the generation that had the boys’ door and the girls’ door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.
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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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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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The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.
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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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If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There’s also the environmental argument for it.
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I’m bad at picking heroes.
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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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Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
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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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Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.
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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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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 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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In the end, we’ll all become stories.
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