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In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
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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There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.
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My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.
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In view of the fading animals the proliferation of sewers and fears the sea clogging, the air nearing extinction we should be kind, we should take warning, we should forgive each other Instead we are opposite, we touch as though attacking, the gifts we bring even in good faith maybe warp in our hands to implements, to manoeuvres
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You can wet the rim of a glass and run your finger around the rim and it will make a sound. This is what I feel like: this sound of glass. I feel like the word shatter. I want to be with someone.
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When any civilization is dust and ashes, he said, art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined by them. You have to admit that.
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If you're a woman writer, sometime, somewhere, you will be asked: Do you think of yourself as a writer first, or as a woman first? Look out. Whoever asks this hates and fears both writing and women.
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Things written down can cause a great deal of harm. All too often, people don't consider that.
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Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate it would be romance, bad luck.
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If your not annoying somebody, you're not alive.
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Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.
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There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.
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Today on the way home, it snows. Big, soft caressing flakes fall onto our skin like cold moths the air fills with feathers.
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We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat.
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Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.
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I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or been forced to leave behind me, and it all seems just as quaint, from here, and I am just as obsessive about it.
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If I am good enough and quiet enough, perhaps after all they will let me go but it’s not easy being quiet and good, it’s like hanging on to the edge of a bridge when you’ve already fallen over you don’t seem to be moving, just dangling there, and yet it is taking all your strength.
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Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?
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Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God.
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