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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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It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly.
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oil paints...the look of licked lips.
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Every novel is-at the beginning-the same opening of a door onto a completely unknown space.
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But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling.
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I don't think it's a question of whether you eat meat. It's a question of what kind of meat, and where it comes from.
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Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.
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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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You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye
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This above all, to refuse to be a victim.
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If you disagree with your government, that's political. If you disagree with your government that is approaching theocracy, then you're evil.
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Write down the thoughts and even more, write down a specific line. If you don't, it'll fly away forever.
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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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I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.
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For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.
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I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow.
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Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back it was always there in oral storytelling. Each form has its pluses and its minuses.
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Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.
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Marshall McLuhan is absolutely right, we are always looking in the rear view mirror.
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The goals of the feminist movement have not been achieved, and those who claim we're living in a post-feminist era are either sadly mistaken or tired of thinking about the whole subject.
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Why is it he feels some line has been crossed, some boundary transgressed? How much is too much, how far is too far?
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