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You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.
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All fat women look the same they all look 42.
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Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.
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Support your libraries... or else!
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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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You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.
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It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are disguised biography — but if you write your biography, it's equally assumed you're lying your head off.
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Your hand is a warm stone I hold between two words.
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A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
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And consider: it is loss to which everything flows, absence in which everything flowers
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I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I want to steal something.
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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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Lose your temper and you lose the fight.
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There is so much going on all over the world that it's impossible for one person to keep up. And I can't.
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You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have maxed hers out. No question. Mr. Scrooge would not have. He would have snipped his up.
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Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.
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We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
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I wish you good writing and good luck. Even if you've already done the good writing, you'll still need the good luck. It's a shark-filled lagoon out there. Cross your fingers and watch your back.
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Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.
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expectation isn't the same as desire
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