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If your not annoying somebody, you're not alive.

Margaret Atwood

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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
Inventor
Literary Critic
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Pedagogue
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
Annoying
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Alive

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Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.
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Just as if you do a mash-up of reality from the point of view of African Americans in this country, you're going to end up with something that will say, This is Black Lives Matter. It's not that people necessarily have started out from that premise. But if you're looking at reality, that will be the result because that is reality.
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I would not change [my past work] anymore than I would airbrush a photo of myself.
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Richard liked to say he picked things up for a song, which was odd, because he never sang. He never even whistled. He was not a musical person.
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for me the novel is a social vehicle, it reflects society.
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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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Repeat reading for me shares a few things with hot-water bottles and thumbsucking: comfort, familiarity, the recurrence of the expected.
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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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This above all, to refuse to be a victim.
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In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys.
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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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About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives.
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The proper study of Mankind is Everything.
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You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away.
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What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves -- our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies.
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You can think clearly only with your clothes on.
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It's very hard for students not to be in debt unless they've got big scholarships or rich parents. And it's called investing in your future, but like any investment it's risky because your future is an unknown quantity. However, if you don't invest in your future, you may be flipping hamburgers for the rest of your life. So it's a real dilemma.
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Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back it was always there in oral storytelling.
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She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.
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The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.
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