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.
MARGARET ATWOODI’m bad at picking heroes.
More Margaret Atwood Quotes
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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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I don’t think of poetry as a ‘rational’ activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me.
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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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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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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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Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
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we lived in the gaps between the stories
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Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.
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I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
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Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
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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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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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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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It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.
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