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Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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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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You can pretty much trace when the big individual indebtedness kicked in, and it was when the credit card became generally available.
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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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We shouldn't have been so scornful we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.
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If a stranger taps you on the ass and says, How's the little lady today! you will probably cringe. But if he's an American, he's only being friendly.
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And consider: it is loss to which everything flows, absence in which everything flowers
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Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.
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Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.
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Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence but I was the opposite. I relaxed, I sighed with relief. Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized.
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All writers must go from now to once a upon a time all must go from here to there all must descend to where the stories are kept all must take care not to be captured and held immobile by the past.
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Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.
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We are a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice.
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The truth is seldom welcome, especially at dinner.
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... Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.
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Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.
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Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar.
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Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering unlike love.
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All it takes,” said Crake, “is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the link in time between one generation and the next, and it’s game over forever.
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