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There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
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Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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Instead I will say, Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers take me to your deaths. These are worth it. These are what I have come for.
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All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.
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Why are you so interested in amoebas? Oh, they're immortal, he said, and sort of shapeless and flexible. Being a person is getting too complicated.
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A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women.
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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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Disease has always been a much bigger killer of human beings than wars.
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It's very hard for students not to be in debt unless they've got big scholarships or rich parents. And it's called investing in your future, but like any investment it's risky because your future is an unknown quantity. However, if you don't invest in your future, you may be flipping hamburgers for the rest of your life. So it's a real dilemma.
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He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever.
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A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book.
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I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.
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Don't eat anything you aren't prepared to kill. Don't kill anything you aren't prepared to eat.
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Even an obvious fabrication is some comfort when you have few others.
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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.
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