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A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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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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Screw poetry, it’s you I want, your taste, rain on you, mouth on your skin.
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I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.
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They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.
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People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.
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She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.
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Don't eat anything you aren't prepared to kill. Don't kill anything you aren't prepared to eat.
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he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.
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Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing.
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Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
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