Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
MARGARET ATWOODI didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.
More Margaret Atwood Quotes
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we lived in the gaps between the stories
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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 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.
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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’m from the generation that had the boys’ door and the girls’ door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.
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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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Maybe that’s what love is, I thought: it’s being pissed off.
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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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Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
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Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,’ she says. ‘Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always collects in the long run.
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I’m bad at picking heroes.
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In the end, we’ll all become stories.
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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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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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There’s always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
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