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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: 84
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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I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree.
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I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.
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