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More of your brain is involved when reading than it is when you watch television... because you are supplying just about everything... you're a creator.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.
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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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But in the end, back she comes. There's no use resisting. She goes to him for amnesia, for oblivion. She renders herself up, is blotted out enters the darkness of her own body, forgets her name. Immolation is what she wants, however briefly. To exist without boundaries.
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Why are you so interested in amoebas? Oh, they're immortal, he said, and sort of shapeless and flexible. Being a person is getting too complicated.
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Powerlessness and silence go together.
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We've learned to see the world in gasps.
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Axiom: you are a sea. Your eye- lids curve over chaos My hands where they touch you, create small inhabited islands soon you will be all earth: a known land, a country.
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I could see how you could do extreme things for the person you loved. Adam One said that when you loved a person, that love might not always get returned the way you wanted, but it was a good thing anyway because love went out all around you like an energy wave, and a creature you didn't know would be helped by it.
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It's very hard for students not to be in debt unless they've got big scholarships or rich parents. And it's called investing in your future, but like any investment it's risky because your future is an unknown quantity. However, if you don't invest in your future, you may be flipping hamburgers for the rest of your life. So it's a real dilemma.
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A movie about the past is not the same as the past.
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he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.
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In the evenings there's been thunder, a distant bumping and stumbling, like God on a sullen binge.
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I enjoyed teaching. I liked the students. Having to formulate my ideas about literature made them clearer. I did not particularly enjoy the more bureaucratic aspects of the job. However, if you are teaching fervently, your energy and time are used up at a great rate.
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In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
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So much better to travel than to arrive.
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I began to forget myself in the middle of sentences.
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When any civilization is dust and ashes, he said, art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined by them. You have to admit that.
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Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back it was always there in oral storytelling.
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Although from you I far must roam, do not be broken hearted. We two, who in the souls are one, are never truly parted.
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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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