We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

—Margaret Atwood

About Margaret Atwood

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Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of...

More quotations from Margaret Atwood

Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissing the tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant. In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

—Margaret Atwood

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—Margaret Atwood

Fear has a smell, as love does.

—Margaret Atwood

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I stand holding the apple in both hands. It feels precious, like a heavy treasure. I lift it up and smell it. It has such an odor of outdoors on it I want to cry.

—Margaret Atwood

How old do you have to get before wisdom descends like a plastic bag over your head and you learn to keep your big mouth shut? Maybe never. Maybe you get more frivolous with age.

—Margaret Atwood

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More quotations tagged with “God”

God must become an activity in our consciousness.

—Joseph Chilton Pearce

I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

—Jewish Proverb

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

—James Lileks

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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

—J. G. Holland

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

—Irv Kupcinet

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