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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
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Ottawa (Ontario)
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How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it.
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This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.
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You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have maxed hers out. No question. Mr. Scrooge would not have. He would have snipped his up.
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Canadians are fond of a good disaster, especially if it has ice, water, or snow in it. You thought the national flag was about a leaf, didn't you? Look harder. It's where someone got axed in the snow.
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Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together.
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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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The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make the hard-hearted feel. Make the deaf hear.
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What you get is no longer what you see.
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Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered.
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I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.
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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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I was delighted with the film [Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth] it almost made me want to be a film-maker!
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I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea.
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I began to forget myself in the middle of sentences.
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Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back it was always there in oral storytelling.
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You can’t buy it, but it has a price,” said Oryx. “Everything has a price.
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There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.
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The truth, it seems, is not just what you find when you open a door: it is itself a door, which the poet is always on the verge of going through.
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Whatever the scientists may come up with, writers and artists will continue to portray altered mental states, simply because few aspects of our nature fascinate people so much. The so-called mad person will always represent a possible future for every member of the audience - who knows when such a malady may strike?
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There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.
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