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About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives.
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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Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain.
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I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.
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If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There's nothing foolproof.
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Don't eat anything you aren't prepared to kill. Don't kill anything you aren't prepared to eat.
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Disease has always been a much bigger killer of human beings than wars.
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I was unfair to him, of course, but where would I have been without unfairness? In thrall, in harness. Young women need unfairness, it's one of their few defenses. They need their callousness, they need their ignorance. They walk in the dark, along the edges of high cliffs, humming to themselves, thinking themselves invulnerable.
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We battled in secret, undeclared, and after a while I no longer fought back because I never won. The only defense was flight, invisibility.
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For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive.
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I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.
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I didn't want him to become gray and multi-dimensional and complicated like everyone else. Was every Heathcliff a Linton in disguise?
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We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.
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I'm with the spirit of Earth-Day-yet-to-come. Nobody can really predict the future, all you can do is look at trends, and that could change at any moment.
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