Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.
MARGARET ATWOODIn the end, we’ll all become stories.
More Margaret Atwood Quotes
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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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And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.
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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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Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.
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We are silent, considering shortfalls. There’s not much time left, for us to become what we once intended. Jon had potential, but it’s not a word that can be used comfortably any more. Potential has a shelf-life.
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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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Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,’ she says. ‘Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always collects in the long run.
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There’s always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
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I’m bad at picking heroes.
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Maybe that’s what love is, I thought: it’s being pissed off.
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There is no fool like an educated fool.
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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 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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I’m not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don’t know what to say. I know the unspoken rules of boys, but with girls I sense that I am always on the verge of some unforeseen, calamitous blunder.
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These things you did were like prayers; you did them and you hoped they would save you. And for the most part they did. Or something did; you could tell by the fact that you were still alive.
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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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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 did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.
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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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The biggest debt is always the government debt; it’s always debt that government has run up on your behalf.
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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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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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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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we lived in the gaps between the stories
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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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