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Quite Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking…
- If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your…
- There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up…
- 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…
- We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for fuel but also…
- In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as possible. I pretend to myself…
- he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.
- I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.
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- I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me… — Margaret Atwood
- If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it… — Margaret Atwood
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