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There is no fool like an educated fool.

Margaret Atwood

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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
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Literary Critic
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like a book that was ever finished, /like a locked-up library.
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There is something reassuring about the toilets. Bodily functions at least remain democratic. Everybody shits.
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This afternoon held that special quality of mournful emptiness I've connected with late Sunday afternoons ever since childhood: the feeling of having nothing to do.
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I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.
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We do not know how we'd behave. But a lot of people facing fascism didn't become fascists. I don't happen to believe that we are all monsters.
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Each form has its pluses and its minuses.
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There is never only one, of anyone
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There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.
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Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence.
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You can pretty much trace when the big individual indebtedness kicked in, and it was when the credit card became generally available.
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Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine!Mine!
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She knows the rituals, she knows how we're supposed to be behaving...But I think these things are impenetrable and fraudulent, and I can't do them without feeling I'm acting.
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If you disagree with your government, that's political. If you disagree with your government that is approaching theocracy, then you're evil.
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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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You're dead, Cordelia.' No I'm not. 'Yes you are. You're dead. Lie down.
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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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Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
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Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God.
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Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant.
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Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.
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