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Your hand is a warm stone I hold between two words.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
Inventor
Literary Critic
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Pedagogue
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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I felt white, drained of blood, cared for, purified. Peaceful.
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So Crake never remembered his dreams. It's Snowman that remembers them instead. Worse than remembers: he's immersed in them, he'd wading through them, he's stuck in them. Every moment he's lived in the past few months was dreamed first by Crake. No wonder Crake screamed so much.
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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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I began to forget myself in the middle of sentences.
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Extreme good, extreme evil: the abilities required are similar.
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Though as he'd say, what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?
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Even an obvious fabrication is some comfort when you have few others.
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Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.
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The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.
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Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.
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Life's not fair why should I be?
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The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.
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For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it.
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Each form has its pluses and its minuses.
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Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like a book that was ever finished, /like a locked-up library.
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