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A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women.
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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The darkness is really out there. It's not something that's in my head, just. It's in my work because it's in the world.
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I'm a Red Tory. To get a fix on this category, you have to go back to the 19th century. The Tories were the ones who believed that those in power had a responsibility to the community, that money should not be the measure of all things.
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Our biggest technology that we ever, ever invented was articulated language with built-out grammar. It is that that allows us to imagine things far in the future and things way back in the past.
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we lived in the gaps between the stories
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Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.
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In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
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Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.
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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.
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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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But the adjectives change,” said Jimmy. “Nothing’s worse than last year’s adjectives.
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Even an obvious fabrication is some comfort when you have few others.
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The facts of this world seen clearly are seen through tears.
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Although from you I far must roam, do not be broken hearted. We two, who in the souls are one, are never truly parted.
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So that’s what art is, for the artist,” said Crake. “An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.
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He doesn't know which is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there's the future. Sheer vertigo.
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I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when the new technology goes down, the immediate fallback position is either that technology just before that or one several technologies back.
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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 grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.
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and each of his voices left his body in a different colored soul and floated up towards the sun still singing.
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I think the book you always like best is the one you're about to write.
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