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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: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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History, as I recall, was never this winsome, and especially not this clean, but the real thing would never sell: most people prefer a past in which nothing smells.
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Imagine a famine. Now imagine a piece of bread. Both of these things are real but you happen to be in the same room with only one of them. Put yourself into a different room, that’s what the mind is for.
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We do not know how we'd behave. But a lot of people facing fascism didn't become fascists. I don't happen to believe that we are all monsters.
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All fathers are invisible in daytime daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable power. There is more to fathers than meets the eye.
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The cat jumps up on the bed and tries to get onto my head. It's his way of telling whether or not i'm dead. If i'm not, he wants to be scratched if i am - he'll think of something
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Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.
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Disease has always been a much bigger killer of human beings than wars.
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Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
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Toast is me. I am toast.
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Where do the words go when we have said them?
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As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter.
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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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So much better to travel than to arrive.
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You can’t buy it, but it has a price,” said Oryx. “Everything has a price.
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I was delighted with the film [Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth] it almost made me want to be a film-maker!
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I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.
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About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives.
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I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.
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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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