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The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn't even an enemy you could put your finger on.
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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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Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering.
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Roughing it builds a boy's character, but only certain kinds of roughing it.
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Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.
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I sometimes felt as if these marks on my body were a kind of code, which blossomed, then faded, like invisible ink held to a candle. But if they were a code, who held the key to it? I was sand, I was snow — written on, rewritten, smoothed over.
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he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.
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You can think clearly only with your clothes on.
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Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain.
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Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
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expectation isn't the same as desire
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Each form has its pluses and its minuses.
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You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye
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Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language. We eat before we talk.
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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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Every novel is-at the beginning-the same opening of a door onto a completely unknown space.
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A truth should exist, it should not be used like this. If I love you is that a fact or a weapon?
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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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In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
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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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