Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
MARGARET ATWOODToo much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
More Margaret Atwood Quotes
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Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
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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 … 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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Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.
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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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Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
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Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
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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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I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.
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It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.
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There is no fool like an educated fool.
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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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I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.
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I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
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