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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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Disease has always been a much bigger killer of human beings than wars.
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He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a performance, for my benefit, to show me he's up-to-date? Maybe men shouldn't have been told about their own humanity. It's only made them uncomfortable. It's only made them trickier, slier, more evasive, harder to read.
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In high school, in 1956, at the age of sixteen, we were not taught creative writing. We were taught literature and grammar. So no one ever told me I couldn't write both prose and poetry, and I started out writing all the things I still write: poetry, prose fiction - which took me longer to get published - and non-fiction prose.
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She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.
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We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.
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Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?
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Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together.
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We are a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice.
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There is so much going on all over the world that it's impossible for one person to keep up. And I can't.
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To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self.
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The body is so easily damaged, so easily disposed of, water and chemicals is all it is, hardly more to it than a jellyfish drying on sand.
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To take that risk, to offer life and remain alive, open yourself like this and become whole.
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I am not your justification for existence.
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If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive.
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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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Remember,' she'd tell her staff, 'every customer wants to feel like a princess, and princesses are selfish and overbearing.
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A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.
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If I am good enough and quiet enough, perhaps after all they will let me go but it’s not easy being quiet and good, it’s like hanging on to the edge of a bridge when you’ve already fallen over you don’t seem to be moving, just dangling there, and yet it is taking all your strength.
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Blank pages inspire me with terror.
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Even an obvious fabrication is some comfort when you have few others.
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