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Though as he'd say, what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
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Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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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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Without the light, no chance without the dark, no dance.
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Children were vehicles for passing things along. These things could be kingdoms, rich wedding gifts, stories, grudges, blood feuds. Through children, alliances were forged through children, wrongs were avenged. To have a child was to set loose a force in the world.
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The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that's because I'm doing it wrong.
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The truth, it seems, is not just what you find when you open a door: it is itself a door, which the poet is always on the verge of going through.
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He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever.
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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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How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it.
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If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.
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You might 'write from the heart,' but you'd better polish with your brain.
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If a god showed up every time you put a quarter in the prayer slot it wouldn't be God, it would be a puppet that you could control by doing that...that would make the deity subservient to you. So it wouldn't be a deity would it?
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It used to be that your bloodlines dictated who you were. But the U.S. became the land of the self-made man, in which not only did you make a fortune but you could make up everything else about yourself as well. You move into a new town with a spurious pedigreed background and you just make yourself up.
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When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.
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I look up at the ceiling, tracing the foliage of the wreath. Today it makes me think of a hat, the large-brimmed hats women used to wear at some period during the old days: hats like enormous halos, festooned with fruit and flowers, and the feathers of exotic birds hats like an idea of paradise, floating just above the head, a thought solidified.
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Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine!Mine!
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Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God.
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We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.
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