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The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them? Will it be good enough? Will I have to throw it out?
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.
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he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.
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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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Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?
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Extreme good, extreme evil: the abilities required are similar.
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