The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.
MARGARET ATWOODThe best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.
More Margaret Atwood Quotes
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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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I’m bad at picking heroes.
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I’m from the generation that had the boys’ door and the girls’ door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.
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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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There is no fool like an educated fool.
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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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The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you’re opposed to it. But when you’re writing a novel, you don’t want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that.
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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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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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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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There’s always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
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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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Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.
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Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.
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Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
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