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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: 85
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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We've learned to see the world in gasps.
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There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.
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Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don't go there to swim, then those young people don't have to find out by trial and error.
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If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive.
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When any civilization is dust and ashes, he said, art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined by them. You have to admit that.
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Powerlessness and silence go together.
Margaret Atwood
You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.
Margaret Atwood
We battled in secret, undeclared, and after a while I no longer fought back because I never won. The only defense was flight, invisibility.
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Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence. Time and distance blur the edges then suddenly the beloved has arrived, and it's noon with its merciless light, and every spot and pore and wrinkle and bristle stands clear.
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If I am good enough and quiet enough, perhaps after all they will let me go but it’s not easy being quiet and good, it’s like hanging on to the edge of a bridge when you’ve already fallen over you don’t seem to be moving, just dangling there, and yet it is taking all your strength.
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Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.
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we lived in the gaps between the stories
Margaret Atwood
If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.
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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.
Margaret Atwood
Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant.
Margaret Atwood
I felt white, drained of blood, cared for, purified. Peaceful.
Margaret Atwood
For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive.
Margaret Atwood
The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
Margaret Atwood
A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of the life-threatening and dignity-destroying precipice you were walking along, you would switch into actuarial sciences immediately.
Margaret Atwood
A truth should exist, it should not be used like this. If I love you is that a fact or a weapon?
Margaret Atwood
