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His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
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Non-Fiction Writer
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.
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Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind.
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Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.
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Your hand is a warm stone I hold between two words.
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Optimism means better than reality pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.
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You can't keep a cool head when you're drowning in love. You just trash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out.
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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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To take that risk, to offer life and remain alive, open yourself like this and become whole.
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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.
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We shouldn't have been so scornful we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.
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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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Roughing it builds a boy's character, but only certain kinds of roughing it.
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We battled in secret, undeclared, and after a while I no longer fought back because I never won. The only defense was flight, invisibility.
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Why are we designed to see the world as supremely beautiful just as we're about to be snuffed? Do rabbits feel the same as the fox teeth bite down on their necks? Is it mercy?
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Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
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But in the end, back she comes. There's no use resisting. She goes to him for amnesia, for oblivion. She renders herself up, is blotted out enters the darkness of her own body, forgets her name. Immolation is what she wants, however briefly. To exist without boundaries.
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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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