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?
MARGARET ATWOODI’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.
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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 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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Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.
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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 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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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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The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.
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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.
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Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.
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In the end, we’ll all become stories.
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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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The biggest debt is always the government debt; it’s always debt that government has run up on your behalf.
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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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Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
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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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