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.
MARGARET ATWOODIf 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.
More Margaret Atwood Quotes
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It’s evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.
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Maybe that’s what love is, I thought: it’s being pissed off.
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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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Canada was built on dead beavers.
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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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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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Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.
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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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Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
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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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In the end, we’ll all become stories.
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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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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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The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.
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