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We've learned to see the world in gasps.

Margaret Atwood

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Margaret Atwood
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
Inventor
Literary Critic
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Pedagogue
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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Gasps
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I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate.
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To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self.
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The truth, it seems, is not just what you find when you open a door: it is itself a door, which the poet is always on the verge of going through.
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Your hand is a warm stone I hold between two words.
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Children were vehicles for passing things along. These things could be kingdoms, rich wedding gifts, stories, grudges, blood feuds. Through children, alliances were forged through children, wrongs were avenged. To have a child was to set loose a force in the world.
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Screw poetry, it’s you I want, your taste, rain on you, mouth on your skin.
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Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.
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And consider: it is loss to which everything flows, absence in which everything flowers
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He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever.
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Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot.
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I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.
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All I can hope for is a reconstruction: the way love feels is always only approximate.
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Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering unlike love.
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