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I'm not senile, I snapped. If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.

Margaret Atwood

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Margaret Atwood
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
Inventor
Literary Critic
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Pedagogue
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
Senile
Snapped
Burn
Purpose
House

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About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives.
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You can wet the rim of a glass and run your finger around the rim and it will make a sound. This is what I feel like: this sound of glass. I feel like the word shatter. I want to be with someone.
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Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.
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Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out.
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Laughter may instruct but it may also conceal, defending the joker against anger and retaliation: a game is only a game.
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I enjoyed teaching. I liked the students. Having to formulate my ideas about literature made them clearer. I did not particularly enjoy the more bureaucratic aspects of the job. However, if you are teaching fervently, your energy and time are used up at a great rate.
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I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.
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There is something reassuring about the toilets. Bodily functions at least remain democratic. Everybody shits.
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I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.
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Faith is only a word, embroidered.
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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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Modesty is invisibility... Never forget it. To be seen - to be seen - is to be... penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.
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