I’m a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don’t like multitasking. When I’m doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.
MARGARET ATWOODStick 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.
More Margaret Atwood Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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There’s always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
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Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
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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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Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence.
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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 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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Canada was built on dead beavers.
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Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
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You can pretty much trace when the big individual indebtedness kicked in, and it was when the credit card became generally available.
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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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