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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: 85
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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Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
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The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.
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If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?
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I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.
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No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one.
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Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom.
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If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.
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I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really a way of saying we appreciate time, and want to use all of it.
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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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More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?
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I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.
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Blank pages inspire me with terror.
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But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.
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There is no fool like an educated fool.
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Write down the thoughts and even more, write down a specific line. If you don't, it'll fly away forever.
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When I was 16 I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. My main feedback came from my English teacher, Miss Bessie B. Billings, who said, 'I can't understand this at all, dear, so it must be good.
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What you get is no longer what you see.
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Optimism means better than reality pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.
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I began to forget myself in the middle of sentences.
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Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you're addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn't available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It's a habit like all habits.
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