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But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
Inventor
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Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting.
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Though as he'd say, what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?
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I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was backpacked into the Quebec bush. I grew up in and out of the bush, in and out of Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie and Toronto.
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My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.
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Faith is only a word, embroidered.
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While in a vintage restaurant...the past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you see it as decor, not as the shape your life's been squeezed into.
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Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave - The water below is as dark as the grave, And maybe you'll sink in your little blue boat - It's hope, and hope only, that keeps us afloat
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The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
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The scroll is coming back (Twitter is a scroll.)
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I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.
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There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
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You most likely need a thesaurus, a rudimentary grammar book, and a grip on reality. This latter means: there's no free lunch. Writing is work. It's also gambling. You don't get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but essentially you're on your own. Nobody is making you do this: you chose it, so don't whine.
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You shouldn't do that, said Laura. You could set yourself on fire.
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The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil
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I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree.
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poetry is where the language is renewed.
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You can't keep a cool head when you're drowning in love. You just trash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out.
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Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out.
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Toast is me. I am toast.
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The truth is seldom welcome, especially at dinner.
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