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I particularly like Twitter, because it's short and can be very funny and informative. It's a little bit like having your own radio program.
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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That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on.
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I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking grammar to be found online - but I was talking about fundamentals: quite simply, you can't use the net unless you can read.
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
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The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.
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Writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep down, by a fear or and fascination with mortality - by a desire to make the risky trip to the underworld and to bring something or someone back from the dead.
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Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them.
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Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.
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Always good to take a look at the long list for the Mann Booker, for the Commonwealth. It gives you an overview.There is so much going on all over the world that it's impossible for one person to keep up. And I can't.
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The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
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I began to forget myself in the middle of sentences.
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Writing is alone, but I don't think it's lonely. Ask any writer if they feel lonely when they're writing their book, and I think they'll say no.
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How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.
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She knows the rituals, she knows how we're supposed to be behaving...But I think these things are impenetrable and fraudulent, and I can't do them without feeling I'm acting.
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I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.
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Although from you I far must roam, do not be broken hearted. We two, who in the souls are one, are never truly parted.
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You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.
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