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 ATWOODI 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.
More Margaret Atwood Quotes
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Canada was built on dead beavers.
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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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In the end, we’ll all become stories.
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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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Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
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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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We are silent, considering shortfalls. There’s not much time left, for us to become what we once intended. Jon had potential, but it’s not a word that can be used comfortably any more. Potential has a shelf-life.
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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 biggest debt is always the government debt; it’s always debt that government has run up on your behalf.
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I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
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Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
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Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.
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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’m bad at picking heroes.
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