Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.
("Oryx and Crake")
More Quotes from Margaret Atwood:
Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: such things take place in an instant, in an eyeblink. This can only be because they have been rehearsed by us already, over and over, in silence and darkness; in such silence, such darkness, that we are ignorant of them ourselves. Blind but sure-footed, we step forward as if into a remembered dance.Margaret Atwood
It's Paradise, but we can't get out of it. And anything you can't get out of is Hell.
Margaret Atwood
There's blood, a taste I remember. It tastes of orange popsicles, penny gumballs, red licorice, gnawed hair, dirty ice.
Margaret Atwood
Real painters grunt like Marlon Brando
Margaret Atwood
Not real can tell us about real.
Margaret Atwood
Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered.
Margaret Atwood
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