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  • Margaret Atwood Quote - Confronted by too much emptiness … the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?
  • Margaret Atwood Quote - Confronted by too much emptiness … the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?
  • Margaret Atwood Quote - Confronted by too much emptiness … the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?
  • Margaret Atwood Quote - Confronted by too much emptiness … the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?
  • Margaret Atwood Quote - Confronted by too much emptiness … the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?
  • Margaret Atwood Quote - Confronted by too much emptiness … the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?
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Confronted by too much emptiness … the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?

Margaret Atwood

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Margaret Atwood Quote - 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.

    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.

    MARGARET ATWOOD
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Margaret Atwood Quote - Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered.

    Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered.

    MARGARET ATWOOD
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Margaret Atwood Quote - A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of the life-threatening and dignity-destroying precipice you were walking along, you would switch into actuarial sciences immediately.

    A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of the life-threatening and dignity-destroying precipice you were walking along, you would switch into actuarial sciences immediately.

    MARGARET ATWOOD
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Margaret Atwood Quote - 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.

    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.

    MARGARET ATWOOD
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Margaret Atwood Quote - It’s evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.

    It’s evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.

    MARGARET ATWOOD
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Margaret Atwood Quote - 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.

    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.

    MARGARET ATWOOD
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Margaret Atwood Quote - I’m not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don’t know what to say. I know the unspoken rules of boys, but with girls I sense that I am always on the verge of some unforeseen, calamitous blunder.

    I’m not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don’t know what to say. I know the unspoken rules of boys, but with girls I sense that I am always on the verge of some unforeseen, calamitous blunder.

    MARGARET ATWOOD
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Margaret Atwood Quote - 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.

    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.

    MARGARET ATWOOD
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Margaret Atwood Quote - I’m a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don’t like multitasking. When I’m doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.

    I’m a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don’t like multitasking. When I’m doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.

    MARGARET ATWOOD
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Margaret Atwood Quote - 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.

    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.

    MARGARET ATWOOD
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Margaret Atwood Quote - Maybe that’s what love is, I thought: it’s being pissed off.

    Maybe that’s what love is, I thought: it’s being pissed off.

    MARGARET ATWOOD
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Margaret Atwood Quote - 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.

    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.

    MARGARET ATWOOD
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Margaret Atwood Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    MARGARET ATWOOD
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Margaret Atwood Quote - Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.

    Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.

    MARGARET ATWOOD
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Margaret Atwood Quote - 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.

    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 ATWOOD
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Margaret Atwood Quote - There’s always something to occupy the inquiring mind.

    There’s always something to occupy the inquiring mind.

    MARGARET ATWOOD