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What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence. Time and distance blur the edges then suddenly the beloved has arrived, and it's noon with its merciless light, and every spot and pore and wrinkle and bristle stands clear.
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I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.
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I felt white, drained of blood, cared for, purified. Peaceful.
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What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.
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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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Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.
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I don't think it's a question of whether you eat meat. It's a question of what kind of meat, and where it comes from.
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I am rather saddened at the end of a book. I think most writers find this. It's like a friend departing on a voyage.
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You shouldn't do that, said Laura. You could set yourself on fire.
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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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This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.
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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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