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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.
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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What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!
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We are a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice.
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