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Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 85
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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As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.
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If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.
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This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.
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We shouldn't have been so scornful we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.
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I write as if I've lived a lot of things I haven't lived.
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Why do men feel threatened by women?
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I think the book you always like best is the one you're about to write.
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Today on the way home, it snows. Big, soft caressing flakes fall onto our skin like cold moths the air fills with feathers.
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But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.
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It's clear, it's fresh, like a mint candy.
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I could end this with a moral, as if this were a fable about animals, though no fables are really about animals.
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Jimmy had been full of himself back then, thinks Snowman with indulgence and a little envy. He’d been unhappy too, of course. It went without saying, his unhappiness. He’d put a lot of energy into it.
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The facts of this world seen clearly are seen through tears.
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I sometimes felt as if these marks on my body were a kind of code, which blossomed, then faded, like invisible ink held to a candle. But if they were a code, who held the key to it? I was sand, I was snow — written on, rewritten, smoothed over.
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The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
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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.
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My brother and I were both teenage writers, and he was, I have to say, better than I was, but he went into science, and I went into writing.
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Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past—the past of others, loaded onto their shoulders. Selfishness is their saving grace.
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Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
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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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