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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
Essayist
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Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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I didn't want him to become gray and multi-dimensional and complicated like everyone else. Was every Heathcliff a Linton in disguise?
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Blondes are like white mice, you only find them in cages. They wouldn’t last long in nature. They’re too conspicuous.
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Though as he'd say, what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?
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It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even if they purport to be about rabbits or robots.
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If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?
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It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.
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A lot of the stuff Kafka said he thought was hilariously funny.
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You can’t buy it, but it has a price,” said Oryx. “Everything has a price.
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And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.
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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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And consider: it is loss to which everything flows, absence in which everything flowers
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Perhaps they were looking for passion perhaps they delved into this book as into a mysterious parcel - a gift box at the bottom of which, hidden in layers of rustling tissue paper, lay something they'd always longed for but couldn't ever grasp.
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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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There is something reassuring about the toilets. Bodily functions at least remain democratic. Everybody shits.
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A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
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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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A voice is a human gift it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.
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