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expectation isn't the same as desire

Margaret Atwood

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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
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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You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have maxed hers out. No question. Mr. Scrooge would not have. He would have snipped his up.
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You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye
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There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.
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I tried to visualize my jealousy as a yellowy-brown cloud boiling around inside me, then going out through my nose like smoke and turning into a stone and falling down into the ground. That did work a little. But in my visualization a plant covered with poison berries would grow out of the stone, whether I wanted it to or not.
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No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one.
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So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with. That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.
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A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.
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Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress.
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In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
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I particularly like Twitter, because it's short and can be very funny and informative. It's a little bit like having your own radio program.
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Faith is only a word, embroidered.
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Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.
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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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Poetry isn't written from the idea down. It's written from the phrase, line and stanza up, which is different from what your teacher taught you to do in school.
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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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I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will.
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It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons.
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My favorite author's question of all time - because it's so simple to answer ... 'Is your hair really like that, or do you get it done?
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There is so much going on all over the world that it's impossible for one person to keep up. And I can't.
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You shouldn't do that, said Laura. You could set yourself on fire.
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