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Don't let the bastards grind you down.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
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Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or been forced to leave behind me, and it all seems just as quaint, from here, and I am just as obsessive about it.
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A movie about the past is not the same as the past.
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Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.
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I'm not senile, I snapped. If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.
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About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives.
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All fat women look the same they all look 42.
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Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water.
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The characters [of The Tempest] have always been favorites of mine. It is one of his meditations on art - what it does.
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But the adjectives change,” said Jimmy. “Nothing’s worse than last year’s adjectives.
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Things written down can cause a great deal of harm. All too often, people don't consider that.
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You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting.
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Every novel is-at the beginning-the same opening of a door onto a completely unknown space.
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There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist.
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Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
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No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one.
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Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence but I was the opposite. I relaxed, I sighed with relief. Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized.
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Even in the tragedies, [William] Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people who talk like aristocrats. He puts in idiots and fools.
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Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.
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I don't know why they are all so eager to be remembered. What good will it do them? There are some things that should be forgotten by everyone, and never spoken of again.
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How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation's mighty seed - For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.
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