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They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.
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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If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.
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Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.
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We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
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I felt white, drained of blood, cared for, purified. Peaceful.
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Things written down can cause a great deal of harm. All too often, people don't consider that.
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Her glass wings are gone.
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I write as if I've lived a lot of things I haven't lived.
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I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.
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The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.
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Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my own heartbeat against the bedsprings...but there’s something dead about it, something deserted.
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Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant.
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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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The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them? Will it be good enough? Will I have to throw it out?
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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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There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.
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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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There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist.
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What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!
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