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People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.
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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It used to be that your bloodlines dictated who you were. But the U.S. became the land of the self-made man, in which not only did you make a fortune but you could make up everything else about yourself as well. You move into a new town with a spurious pedigreed background and you just make yourself up.
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Writing is alone, but I don't think it's lonely. Ask any writer if they feel lonely when they're writing their book, and I think they'll say no.
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Do back exercises. Pain is distracting.
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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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There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it.
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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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But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling.
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Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich, or aristocratic, they shuffle around. They're a group phenomenon, they're not very fast, they're quite sickly. So what's the pleasure of being one?
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I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.
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Science is not something that exists apart from human beings. It's one of the things we do as human beings, and we always have done science and technology in some form.
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We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.
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Why is it he feels some line has been crossed, some boundary transgressed? How much is too much, how far is too far?
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Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?
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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 yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.
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