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Why are you so interested in amoebas? Oh, they're immortal, he said, and sort of shapeless and flexible. Being a person is getting too complicated.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will.
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I look up at the ceiling, tracing the foliage of the wreath. Today it makes me think of a hat, the large-brimmed hats women used to wear at some period during the old days: hats like enormous halos, festooned with fruit and flowers, and the feathers of exotic birds hats like an idea of paradise, floating just above the head, a thought solidified.
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...how much needless despair has been caused by a series of biological mismatches, a misalignment of the hormones and pheromones? Resulting in the fact that the one you love so passionately won't or can't love you. As a species we're pathetic that way: imperfectly monogamous.
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Toast is me. I am toast.
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There is no fool like an educated fool.
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I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree.
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We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.
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His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.
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Make the verses flow together. If a following verse has nothing to do with the previous, you may lose our listener/reader. You want a smooth flow to hear or read, and it's easier to memorize.
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I sometimes felt as if these marks on my body were a kind of code, which blossomed, then faded, like invisible ink held to a candle. But if they were a code, who held the key to it? I was sand, I was snow — written on, rewritten, smoothed over.
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As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.
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The alcohol smell is on my fingers, cold and remote, piercing like a steel pin going in. It smells like white enamel basins. When I look up at the stars in the nighttime, cold and white and sharp, I think they must smell like that.
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There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.
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I particularly like Twitter, because it's short and can be very funny and informative. It's a little bit like having your own radio program.
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For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.
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The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.
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Why is it he feels some line has been crossed, some boundary transgressed? How much is too much, how far is too far?
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