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So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually locate. Someone must be having fun at it, this life of his only, right at the moment, it wasn't him.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
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Ottawa (Ontario)
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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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Gravity works in your life, the notion of free will works in your life, however problematic it may at times be.
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The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.
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Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.
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Powerlessness and silence go together.
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For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control.... I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You go out there and wait for a wave, and when it comes it takes you somewhere and you don't know where it'll go.
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And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.
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As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.
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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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They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.
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Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them.
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Don't eat anything you aren't prepared to kill. Don't kill anything you aren't prepared to eat.
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The problem is huge. We've just added seventy-five million people to the already large proportion of people in the world who are malnourished all the time, whose bodies are being starved.
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Blondes are like white mice, you only find them in cages. They wouldn’t last long in nature. They’re too conspicuous.
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There is something reassuring about the toilets. Bodily functions at least remain democratic. Everybody shits.
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