Maybe that’s what love is, I thought: it’s being pissed off.
MARGARET ATWOODVictorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
More Margaret Atwood Quotes
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Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.
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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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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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Canada was built on dead beavers.
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How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation’s mighty seed – For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.
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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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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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It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.
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Immortality,’ said Crake, ‘ is a concept. If you take ‘mortality’ as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then ‘immortality’ is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you’ll be.
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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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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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When any civilization is dust and ashes,” he said, “art is all that’s left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined by them. You have to admit that.
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Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
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Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.
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The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.
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