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But the adjectives change,” said Jimmy. “Nothing’s worse than last year’s adjectives.
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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There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's something delightful about it, something naughty, secretive, forbidden, thrilling. It's like a spell, of sorts. It deflates them, reduces them to the common denominator where they can be dealt.
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There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.
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Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.
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Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?
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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
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But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men.
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A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
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Even in the tragedies, [William] Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people who talk like aristocrats. He puts in idiots and fools.
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Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
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Today on the way home, it snows. Big, soft caressing flakes fall onto our skin like cold moths the air fills with feathers.
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...and nostalgia swept through Jimmy like a sudden hunger.
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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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I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow.
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