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Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. Good for trade, we thrive on bones without them there'd be no stories.
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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Lose your temper and you lose the fight.
Margaret Atwood
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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You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away.
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Do back exercises. Pain is distracting.
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he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.
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I could end this with a moral, as if this were a fable about animals, though no fables are really about animals.
Margaret Atwood
I could see how you could do extreme things for the person you loved. Adam One said that when you loved a person, that love might not always get returned the way you wanted, but it was a good thing anyway because love went out all around you like an energy wave, and a creature you didn't know would be helped by it.
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A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.
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I enjoyed teaching. I liked the students. Having to formulate my ideas about literature made them clearer. I did not particularly enjoy the more bureaucratic aspects of the job. However, if you are teaching fervently, your energy and time are used up at a great rate.
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I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.
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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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I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate.
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His mouth is on me, his hands, I can't wait and he's moving, already, love, it's been so long, I'm alive in my skin, again, arms around him, falling and water softly everywhere, never-ending.
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But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men.
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There is no fool like an educated fool.
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The facts of this world seen clearly are seen through tears.
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You're dead, Cordelia.' No I'm not. 'Yes you are. You're dead. Lie down.
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In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
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Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.
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Write down the thoughts and even more, write down a specific line. If you don't, it'll fly away forever.
Margaret Atwood
