How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation’s mighty seed – For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.
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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I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.
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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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Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
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Canada was built on dead beavers.
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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 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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The biggest debt is always the government debt; it’s always debt that government has run up on your behalf.
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Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
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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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Maybe that’s what love is, I thought: it’s being pissed off.
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The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.
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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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I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
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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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