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If you want what's in the package you should at least know how to get the string off, is what I say.
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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More of your brain is involved when reading than it is when you watch television... because you are supplying just about everything... you're a creator.
Margaret Atwood
...how much needless despair has been caused by a series of biological mismatches, a misalignment of the hormones and pheromones? Resulting in the fact that the one you love so passionately won't or can't love you. As a species we're pathetic that way: imperfectly monogamous.
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Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.
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If a stranger taps you on the ass and says, How's the little lady today! you will probably cringe. But if he's an American, he's only being friendly.
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There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
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It was very interesting to me that when Louisiana was destroyed in that flood the fundamentalists were very quick to say, it's the punishment of God on a sinful city. Now that the oil industry has been so hard hit in Galveston, are they up on their pulpits saying, God is punishing the oil industry? No, no, no!
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I tried to visualize my jealousy as a yellowy-brown cloud boiling around inside me, then going out through my nose like smoke and turning into a stone and falling down into the ground. That did work a little. But in my visualization a plant covered with poison berries would grow out of the stone, whether I wanted it to or not.
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The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.
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Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there's a little utopia.
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If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There's nothing foolproof.
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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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Her glass wings are gone.
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They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.
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While in a vintage restaurant...the past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you see it as decor, not as the shape your life's been squeezed into.
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Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL game.
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We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
Margaret Atwood
That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.
Margaret Atwood
The act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how.
Margaret Atwood
I don't want to look at something that determines me so completely.
Margaret Atwood
In my dreams of this city I am always lost.
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