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Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.
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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I am not your justification for existence.
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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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Science is not something that exists apart from human beings. It's one of the things we do as human beings, and we always have done science and technology in some form.
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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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I was unfair to him, of course, but where would I have been without unfairness? In thrall, in harness. Young women need unfairness, it's one of their few defenses. They need their callousness, they need their ignorance. They walk in the dark, along the edges of high cliffs, humming to themselves, thinking themselves invulnerable.
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Blank pages inspire me with terror.
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I'm a novelist, and idle speculation is what novelists do. How odd to spend one's life trying to pretend that non-existent people are real: though no odder, I suppose, than what government bureaucrats do, which is trying to pretend that real people are non-existent.
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Roughing it builds a boy's character, but only certain kinds of roughing it.
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All I can hope for is a reconstruction: the way love feels is always only approximate.
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Today on the way home, it snows. Big, soft caressing flakes fall onto our skin like cold moths the air fills with feathers.
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I myself have 12 hats and each one represents a different personality. Why just be yourself.
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We are a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice.
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The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.
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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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If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's also the environmental argument for it.
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My favorite author's question of all time - because it's so simple to answer ... 'Is your hair really like that, or do you get it done?
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To take that risk, to offer life and remain alive, open yourself like this and become whole.
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Canadians are fond of a good disaster, especially if it has ice, water, or snow in it. You thought the national flag was about a leaf, didn't you? Look harder. It's where someone got axed in the snow.
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