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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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I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I want to steal something.
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A movie about the past is not the same as the past.
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When any civilization is dust and ashes, he said, art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined by them. You have to admit that.
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I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.
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Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.
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All I can hope for is a reconstruction: the way love feels is always only approximate.
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But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.
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Our biggest technology that we ever, ever invented was articulated language with built-out grammar. It is that that allows us to imagine things far in the future and things way back in the past.
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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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If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.
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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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I could see how you could do extreme things for the person you loved. Adam One said that when you loved a person, that love might not always get returned the way you wanted, but it was a good thing anyway because love went out all around you like an energy wave, and a creature you didn't know would be helped by it.
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I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.
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Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.
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Lose your temper and you lose the fight.
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If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that's it. You're not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You're not going to read that book again.
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The act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how.
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Everybody acts as if they have free will. They act as if they can make these decisions do they know they don't? I think there's been some back-down on the idea that everything is determined.
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If your not annoying somebody, you're not alive.
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Where do the words go when we have said them?
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