Maybe that’s what love is, I thought: it’s being pissed off.
MARGARET ATWOODI read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
More Margaret Atwood Quotes
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Although from you I far must roam, do not be broken hearted. We two, who in the souls are one, are never truly parted.
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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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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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Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. Good for trade, we thrive on bones; without them there’d be no stories.
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The way love feels is always only approximate. I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.
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I 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.
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It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.
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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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It’s evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.
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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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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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And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.
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Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they’re not rich, or aristocratic, they shuffle around. They’re a group phenomenon, they’re not very fast, they’re quite sickly. So what’s the pleasure of being one?
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Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
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