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He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
Inventor
Literary Critic
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Pedagogue
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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Screw poetry, it’s you I want, your taste, rain on you, mouth on your skin.
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It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are disguised biography — but if you write your biography, it's equally assumed you're lying your head off.
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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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Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. Good for trade, we thrive on bones without them there'd be no stories.
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But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another.
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Lose your temper and you lose the fight.
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His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.
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Don't eat anything you aren't prepared to kill. Don't kill anything you aren't prepared to eat.
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I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea.
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Faith is only a word, embroidered.
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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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Richard liked to say he picked things up for a song, which was odd, because he never sang. He never even whistled. He was not a musical person.
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There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it.
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As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter.
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Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.
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When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.
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Her glass wings are gone.
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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.
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What you get is no longer what you see.
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and each of his voices left his body in a different colored soul and floated up towards the sun still singing.
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