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Knowledge is power only as long as you keep your mouth shut.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
Inventor
Literary Critic
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Pedagogue
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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Powerlessness and silence go together.
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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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I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.
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I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.
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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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If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that's it. You're not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You're not going to read that book again.
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Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.
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You aren't sick & unhappy only alive & stuck with it.
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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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We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.
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I didn't want him to become gray and multi-dimensional and complicated like everyone else. Was every Heathcliff a Linton in disguise?
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Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?
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we lived in the gaps between the stories
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Disease has always been a much bigger killer of human beings than wars.
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There is something reassuring about the toilets. Bodily functions at least remain democratic. Everybody shits.
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Snowman wakes before dawn.
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Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
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