Although from you I far must roam, do not be broken hearted. We two, who in the souls are one, are never truly parted.
MARGARET ATWOODThe heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history.
More Margaret Atwood Quotes
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Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
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The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.
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Confronted by too much emptiness … the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?
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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 is no fool like an educated fool.
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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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Canada was built on dead beavers.
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There’s always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
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I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
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Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. Good for trade, we thrive on bones; without them there’d be no stories.
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Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
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Maybe that’s what love is, I thought: it’s being pissed off.
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Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.
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I’m bad at picking heroes.
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It’s evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.
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