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Even an obvious fabrication is some comfort when you have few others.

Margaret Atwood

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Margaret Atwood
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
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Literary Critic
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
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Poet
Science Fiction Writer
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason. Think of it as the altar of the Muse Oblivion, to whom you sacrifice your botched first drafts, the tokens of your human imperfection.
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As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.
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I could end this with a moral, as if this were a fable about animals, though no fables are really about animals.
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Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.
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Once a month I wake in the night, slippery with terror. I'm afraid, not because there's someone in the room, in the dark, in the bed, but because there isn't. I'm afraid of the emptiness, which lies beside me like a corpse.
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The act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how.
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Choice of evils debates always produce extremism - people choose what they hope is the lesser evil, then call it good and demonize the other choice. It will be a challenge for your generation to synthesize - to move beyond Us versus Them, to We.
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I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking grammar to be found online - but I was talking about fundamentals: quite simply, you can't use the net unless you can read.
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Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.
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Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like a book that was ever finished, /like a locked-up library.
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The characters [of The Tempest] have always been favorites of mine. It is one of his meditations on art - what it does.
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No male writer is likely to be asked to sit on a panel addressing itself to the special problems of a male writer.
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I'm not senile, I snapped. If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.
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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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Why do men feel threatened by women?
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Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.
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and each of his voices left his body in a different colored soul and floated up towards the sun still singing.
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To want is to have a weakness.
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There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it.
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Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine!Mine!
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