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A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot.
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For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive.
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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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All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard.
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But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another.
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The darkness is really out there. It's not something that's in my head, just. It's in my work because it's in the world.
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Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together.
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I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea.
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Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
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I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.
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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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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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Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
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