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I myself have 12 hats and each one represents a different personality. Why just be yourself.

Margaret Atwood

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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
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Literary Critic
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand you must see your left hand erasing it.
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You can think clearly only with your clothes on.
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In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys.
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Lose your temper and you lose the fight.
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If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive.
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But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.
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All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.
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