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Margaret Atwood Inspirational Quotes (469)

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I grew up amongst biologists.
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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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If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.
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art happens. It happens when you have the craft and the vocation and are waiting for something else, something extra, or maybe not waiting in any case it happens. It's the extra rabbit coming out of the hat, the one you didn't put there.
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Ah men, why do you want all this attention? I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutely necessary. What do you have to offer me I can't find otherwise except humiliation? Which I no longer need.
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If a god showed up every time you put a quarter in the prayer slot it wouldn't be God, it would be a puppet that you could control by doing that...that would make the deity subservient to you. So it wouldn't be a deity would it?
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Why are you so interested in amoebas? Oh, they're immortal, he said, and sort of shapeless and flexible. Being a person is getting too complicated.
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The darkness is really out there. It's not something that's in my head, just. It's in my work because it's in the world.
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Toast is me. I am toast.
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Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.
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Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.
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Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them.
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And consider: it is loss to which everything flows, absence in which everything flowers
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No male writer is likely to be asked to sit on a panel addressing itself to the special problems of a male writer.
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The objects I chose were designed to hold something, but I didn't fill them up. They remained empty. They were little symbolic shrines to thirst.
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Canadians are fond of a good disaster, especially if it has ice, water, or snow in it. You thought the national flag was about a leaf, didn't you? Look harder. It's where someone got axed in the snow.
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Faith is only a word, embroidered.
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What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!
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­Do back exercises. Pain is distracting.
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There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.
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My brother and I were both teenage writers, and he was, I have to say, better than I was, but he went into science, and I went into writing.
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Writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep down, by a fear or and fascination with mortality - by a desire to make the risky trip to the underworld and to bring something or someone back from the dead.
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The scroll is coming back (Twitter is a scroll.)
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The problem is huge. We've just added seventy-five million people to the already large proportion of people in the world who are malnourished all the time, whose bodies are being starved.
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