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You might 'write from the heart,' but you'd better polish with your brain.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
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Non-Fiction Writer
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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For every age there is a popular idea about what madness is, what causes it, and how a mad person should look and behave and it's usually these popular ideas, rather than those of medical professionals, that turn up in songs and stories and plays and books.
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Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.
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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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There is something reassuring about the toilets. Bodily functions at least remain democratic. Everybody shits.
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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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There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's something delightful about it, something naughty, secretive, forbidden, thrilling. It's like a spell, of sorts. It deflates them, reduces them to the common denominator where they can be dealt.
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He has to find more and better ways of occupying his time. His time, what a bankrupt idea, as if he's been given a box of time belonging to him alone, stuffed to the brim with hours and minutes that he can spend like money. Trouble is, the box has holes in it and the time is running out, no matter what he does with it.
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