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Margaret Atwood

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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
Inventor
Literary Critic
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Pedagogue
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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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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Don't misunderstand me. I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and far more complicated. But sometimes it's hard to put up with.
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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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We shouldn't have been so scornful we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.
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I did ... learn an important distinction in graduate school: a speculation about who had syphilis when is gossip if it's about your friends, a plot element if it's about a character in a novel, and scholarship if it's about John Keats.
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Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.
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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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