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There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.
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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And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.
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If your not annoying somebody, you're not alive.
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Gravity works in your life, the notion of free will works in your life, however problematic it may at times be.
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We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat.
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Just as if you do a mash-up of reality from the point of view of African Americans in this country, you're going to end up with something that will say, This is Black Lives Matter. It's not that people necessarily have started out from that premise. But if you're looking at reality, that will be the result because that is reality.
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The proper study of Mankind is Everything.
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Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.
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Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.
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Children were vehicles for passing things along. These things could be kingdoms, rich wedding gifts, stories, grudges, blood feuds. Through children, alliances were forged through children, wrongs were avenged. To have a child was to set loose a force in the world.
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Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.
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Your hand is a warm stone I hold between two words.
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If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.
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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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Thy only authentic ending is the one provided here: John and Mary die, John and Mary die, John and Mary die.
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I write as if I've lived a lot of things I haven't lived.
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If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?
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