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Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

Margaret Atwood

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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
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Literary Critic
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Pedagogue
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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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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They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.
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