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Make the verses flow together. If a following verse has nothing to do with the previous, you may lose our listener/reader. You want a smooth flow to hear or read, and it's easier to memorize.

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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Science Fiction Writer
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like a book that was ever finished, /like a locked-up library.
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The short answer to 'Why do you write' is - I suppose I write for some of the same reasons I read: to live a double life to go places I haven't been to examine life on earth to come to know people in ways, and at depths, that are otherwise impossible to be surprised.
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How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.
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Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.
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Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing.
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A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.
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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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Although from you I far must roam, do not be broken hearted. We two, who in the souls are one, are never truly parted.
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It's clear, it's fresh, like a mint candy.
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If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive.
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In my dreams of this city I am always lost.
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It's in Macbeth: The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon. I seldom have occasion to pull it out, but it's ready and waiting!
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I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will.
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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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As William Gibson says, the future is already here but it's lumpy. It's unevenly distributed. Some people are already living this, the ones on low-lying islands off the coast of India are being swept away, you know, it's already happening to some people. We happen to be very lucky so far.
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Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.
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Life's not fair why should I be?
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