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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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I sometimes felt as if these marks on my body were a kind of code, which blossomed, then faded, like invisible ink held to a candle. But if they were a code, who held the key to it? I was sand, I was snow — written on, rewritten, smoothed over.
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Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
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It was very interesting to me that when Louisiana was destroyed in that flood the fundamentalists were very quick to say, it's the punishment of God on a sinful city. Now that the oil industry has been so hard hit in Galveston, are they up on their pulpits saying, God is punishing the oil industry? No, no, no!
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There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.
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As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.
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So that’s what art is, for the artist,” said Crake. “An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.
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This above all, to refuse to be a victim.
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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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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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Although from you I far must roam, do not be broken hearted. We two, who in the souls are one, are never truly parted.
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Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage them. For instance, men often faint at the sight of their own blood, to which they are not accustomed. For this reason you should never stand behind one in the line at the Red Cross donor clinic.
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I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea.
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The truth is seldom welcome, especially at dinner.
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Blank pages inspire me with terror.
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Gravity works in your life, the notion of free will works in your life, however problematic it may at times be.
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For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.
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