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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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Non-Fiction Writer
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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Moira was like an elevator with open sides. She made us dizzy.
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In view of the fading animals the proliferation of sewers and fears the sea clogging, the air nearing extinction we should be kind, we should take warning, we should forgive each other Instead we are opposite, we touch as though attacking, the gifts we bring even in good faith maybe warp in our hands to implements, to manoeuvres
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I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.
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he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.
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He needed to exist only in the present, without guilt, without expectation.
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He has been trying to sing Love into existence again And he has failed
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Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out.
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These things you did were like prayers you did them and you hoped they would save you. And for the most part they did. Or something did you could tell by the fact that you were still alive.
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