There’s always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
MARGARET ATWOODThere’s always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
More Margaret Atwood Quotes
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I’m bad at picking heroes.
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Maybe that’s what love is, I thought: it’s being pissed off.
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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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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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Don’t misunderstand me. I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and far more complicated. But sometimes it’s hard to put up with.
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It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.
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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 read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
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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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There is no fool like an educated fool.
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we lived in the gaps between the stories
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I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.
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Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
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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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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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