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Tell what is yours to tell. Let others tell what is theirs.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
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Non-Fiction Writer
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Science Fiction Writer
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!
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Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.
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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.
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Laughter may instruct but it may also conceal, defending the joker against anger and retaliation: a game is only a game.
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I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different.
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No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do too badly by one another, we did as well as most.
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Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
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Science is not something that exists apart from human beings. It's one of the things we do as human beings, and we always have done science and technology in some form.
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I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.
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A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.
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What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.
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Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL game.
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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. Time and distance blur the edges then suddenly the beloved has arrived, and it's noon with its merciless light, and every spot and pore and wrinkle and bristle stands clear.
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We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs.
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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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art happens. It happens when you have the craft and the vocation and are waiting for something else, something extra, or maybe not waiting in any case it happens. It's the extra rabbit coming out of the hat, the one you didn't put there.
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When I was 16 I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. My main feedback came from my English teacher, Miss Bessie B. Billings, who said, 'I can't understand this at all, dear, so it must be good.
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Lose your temper and you lose the fight.
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There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.
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Don't eat anything you aren't prepared to kill. Don't kill anything you aren't prepared to eat.
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