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You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.
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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You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn’t necessarily get you the truth. Two and two equals a voice outside the window. Two and two equals the wind. The living bird is not its labeled bones.
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I wish you good writing and good luck. Even if you've already done the good writing, you'll still need the good luck. It's a shark-filled lagoon out there. Cross your fingers and watch your back.
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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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There is something reassuring about the toilets. Bodily functions at least remain democratic. Everybody shits.
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In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
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I never say I'm an ist of any kind unless I know how the other person is defining it.
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I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will.
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To want is to have a weakness.
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The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.
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So much better to travel than to arrive.
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You can think clearly only with your clothes on.
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She had no images of this love. She could offer no anecdotes. It was a belief rather than a memory.
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My brother and I were both teenage writers, and he was, I have to say, better than I was, but he went into science, and I went into writing.
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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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A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.
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So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually locate. Someone must be having fun at it, this life of his only, right at the moment, it wasn't him.
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Modesty is invisibility... Never forget it. To be seen - to be seen - is to be... penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.
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The objects I chose were designed to hold something, but I didn't fill them up. They remained empty. They were little symbolic shrines to thirst.
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What you get is no longer what you see.
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The problem is huge. We've just added seventy-five million people to the already large proportion of people in the world who are malnourished all the time, whose bodies are being starved.
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