I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.
MARGARET ATWOODI read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
More Margaret Atwood Quotes
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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
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Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence.
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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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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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I’m bad at picking heroes.
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There is no fool like an educated fool.
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In the end, we’ll all become stories.
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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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we lived in the gaps between the stories
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It’s evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.
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Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.
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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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I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.
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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.
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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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