Maybe that’s what love is, I thought: it’s being pissed off.
MARGARET ATWOODIn the end, we’ll all become stories.
More Margaret Atwood Quotes
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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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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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I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.
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Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
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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 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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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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Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
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There’s always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
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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 bad at picking heroes.
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Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
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It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.
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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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There is no fool like an educated fool.
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