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She had no images of this love. She could offer no anecdotes. It was a belief rather than a memory.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do too badly by one another, we did as well as most.
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I myself have 12 hats and each one represents a different personality. Why just be yourself.
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He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a performance, for my benefit, to show me he's up-to-date? Maybe men shouldn't have been told about their own humanity. It's only made them uncomfortable. It's only made them trickier, slier, more evasive, harder to read.
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Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.
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Why are you so interested in amoebas? Oh, they're immortal, he said, and sort of shapeless and flexible. Being a person is getting too complicated.
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More of your brain is involved when reading than it is when you watch television... because you are supplying just about everything... you're a creator.
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Now I can see how that can happen. You can fall in love with anybody--a fool, a criminal, a nothing. There are no good rules.
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That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.
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In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys.
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Toast is me. I am toast.
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You can’t buy it, but it has a price,” said Oryx. “Everything has a price.
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EXTINCTATHON, Monitored by MaddAddam. Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones. Do you want to play?
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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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For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive.
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Make the verses flow together. If a following verse has nothing to do with the previous, you may lose our listener/reader. You want a smooth flow to hear or read, and it's easier to memorize.
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I was unfair to him, of course, but where would I have been without unfairness? In thrall, in harness. Young women need unfairness, it's one of their few defenses. They need their callousness, they need their ignorance. They walk in the dark, along the edges of high cliffs, humming to themselves, thinking themselves invulnerable.
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There is something reassuring about the toilets. Bodily functions at least remain democratic. Everybody shits.
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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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