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Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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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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You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see.
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More of your brain is involved when reading than it is when you watch television... because you are supplying just about everything... you're a creator.
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So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with. That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.
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oil paints...the look of licked lips.
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In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys.
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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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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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The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand you must see your left hand erasing it.
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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 love you, is that a fact or a weapon?
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Just as if you do a mash-up of reality from the point of view of African Americans in this country, you're going to end up with something that will say, This is Black Lives Matter. It's not that people necessarily have started out from that premise. But if you're looking at reality, that will be the result because that is reality.
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When I finally went to school I had to adjust to other girls and learn their fiendish ways. Having learnt them, I turned them on all and sundry.
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To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self.
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Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.
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A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
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I would not change [my past work] anymore than I would airbrush a photo of myself.
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She had no images of this love. She could offer no anecdotes. It was a belief rather than a memory.
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Disease has always been a much bigger killer of human beings than wars.
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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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