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I would not change [my past work] anymore than I would airbrush a photo of myself.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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More quotes by Margaret Atwood
How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it.
Margaret Atwood
Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.
Margaret Atwood
friendship was always contingent.
Margaret Atwood
The facts of this world seen clearly are seen through tears.
Margaret Atwood
She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.
Margaret Atwood
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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A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book.
Margaret Atwood
The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that's because I'm doing it wrong.
Margaret Atwood
I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.
Margaret Atwood
There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist.
Margaret Atwood
Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.
Margaret Atwood
Remember,' she'd tell her staff, 'every customer wants to feel like a princess, and princesses are selfish and overbearing.
Margaret Atwood
Gravity works in your life, the notion of free will works in your life, however problematic it may at times be.
Margaret Atwood
To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self. She is living selflessly, she finds a hole in the stone wall and on the other side of the wall, a voice. The voice comes through darkness and has no face. This voice becomes her mirror.
Margaret Atwood
The darkness is really out there. It's not something that's in my head, just. It's in my work because it's in the world.
Margaret Atwood
Karen wasn't hard, she was soft, too soft. A soft touch. Her hair was soft, her smile was soft, her voice was soft. She was so soft there was no resistance. Hard things sank into her, they went right through her, and if she made a real effort, out the other side. Then she didn't have to see them or hear them, or even touch them.
Margaret Atwood
If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's also the environmental argument for it.
Margaret Atwood
People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.
Margaret Atwood
I don't want to look at something that determines me so completely.
Margaret Atwood
we lived in the gaps between the stories
Margaret Atwood
