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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
Inventor
Literary Critic
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Pedagogue
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate. I would prefer to stay in the Writing Burrow and play with my imaginary friends and enemies. I get sucked into these things.
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Love's never a fair trade.
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It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even if they purport to be about rabbits or robots.
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Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.
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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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I was horrified in high school by the fate of the hanged maids at the end of the Odyssey it seemed unfair to me, even then.
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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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Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.
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Perhaps they were looking for passion perhaps they delved into this book as into a mysterious parcel - a gift box at the bottom of which, hidden in layers of rustling tissue paper, lay something they'd always longed for but couldn't ever grasp.
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The scroll is coming back (Twitter is a scroll.)
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I'm not senile, I snapped. If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.
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Your hand is a warm stone I hold between two words.
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For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it.
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How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it.
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For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive.
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I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate.
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I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when the new technology goes down, the immediate fallback position is either that technology just before that or one several technologies back.
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How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.
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I never say I'm an ist of any kind unless I know how the other person is defining it.
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I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really a way of saying we appreciate time, and want to use all of it.
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