The biggest debt is always the government debt; it’s always debt that government has run up on your behalf.
MARGARET ATWOODThere’s always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
More Margaret Atwood Quotes
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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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we lived in the gaps between the stories
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It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.
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I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
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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 best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.
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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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Canada was built on dead beavers.
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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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Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.
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Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.
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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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In the end, we’ll all become stories.
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There is no fool like an educated fool.
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These things you did were like prayers; you did them and you hoped they would save you. And for the most part they did. Or something did; you could tell by the fact that you were still alive.
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