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Quotes about Awareness

But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling.
— Margaret Atwood
We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
— Margaret Atwood
What could be done? We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?
— Margaret Atwood
The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us.
— Margaret Atwood
What you don't know won't hurt you.
— Margaret Atwood
Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.
— Margaret Atwood
Sex and violence, he thinks now. A lot of the songs were about that. We didn't even notice. We thought it was art.
— Margaret Atwood
You must observe the risings of the Sun and the changings of the Moon, because to everything there is a season.
— Margaret Atwood
Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.
— Margaret Atwood
We have learned to see the world in gasps.
— Margaret Atwood
Though it's hard to concentrate on the idea of a future. She's too immersed in the present:
— Margaret Atwood
She looks at you as if she really sees you." So many people had looked past me. "I think I'd like that," I said. "No," said Becka. "That's why she's so scary.
— Margaret Atwood