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Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.
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All I can hope for is a reconstruction: the way love feels is always only approximate.
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As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.
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I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow.
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They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.
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I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.
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Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.
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You can wet the rim of a glass and run your finger around the rim and it will make a sound. This is what I feel like: this sound of glass. I feel like the word shatter. I want to be with someone.
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In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys.
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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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This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.
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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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The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.
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I tried to visualize my jealousy as a yellowy-brown cloud boiling around inside me, then going out through my nose like smoke and turning into a stone and falling down into the ground. That did work a little. But in my visualization a plant covered with poison berries would grow out of the stone, whether I wanted it to or not.
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Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.
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There is so much going on all over the world that it's impossible for one person to keep up. And I can't.
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There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it.
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History, as I recall, was never this winsome, and especially not this clean, but the real thing would never sell: most people prefer a past in which nothing smells.
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