In the end, we’ll all become 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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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
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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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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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I’m bad at picking heroes.
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Canada was built on dead beavers.
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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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Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.
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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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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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And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.
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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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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 heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history.
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Maybe that’s what love is, I thought: it’s being pissed off.
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There is no fool like an educated fool.
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I’m a novelist, and idle speculation is what novelists do. How odd to spend one’s life trying to pretend that non-existent people are real: though no odder, I suppose, than what government bureaucrats do, which is trying to pretend that real people are non-existent.
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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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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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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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There’s always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
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we lived in the gaps between the stories
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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 was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.
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I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
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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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