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he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
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Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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Instead I will say, Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers take me to your deaths. These are worth it. These are what I have come for.
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He has been trying to sing Love into existence again And he has failed
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The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.
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I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.
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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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As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.
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In the animal world individuals cheat, as do we.
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Lose your temper and you lose the fight.
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Love's never a fair trade.
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In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys.
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I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.
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Do back exercises. Pain is distracting.
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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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expectation isn't the same as desire
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It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.
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The fabric of democracy is always fragile everywhere because it depends on the will of citizens to protect it, and when they become scared, when it becomes dangerous for them to defend it, it can go very quickly.
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How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.
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