Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
MARGARET ATWOODI 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.
More Margaret Atwood Quotes
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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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Canada was built on dead beavers.
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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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There is no fool like an educated fool.
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The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.
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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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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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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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Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.
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Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.
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Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.
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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.
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Don’t misunderstand me. I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and far more complicated. But sometimes it’s hard to put up with.
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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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Immortality,’ said Crake, ‘ is a concept. If you take ‘mortality’ as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then ‘immortality’ is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you’ll be.
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