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for me the novel is a social vehicle, it reflects society.

Margaret Atwood

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Margaret Atwood
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
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Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.
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But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.
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The alcohol smell is on my fingers, cold and remote, piercing like a steel pin going in. It smells like white enamel basins. When I look up at the stars in the nighttime, cold and white and sharp, I think they must smell like that.
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It is my contention that the process of reading is part of the process of writing, the necessary completion without which writing can hardly be said to exist.
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Moira was like an elevator with open sides. She made us dizzy.
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I would not change [my past work] anymore than I would airbrush a photo of myself.
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Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out.
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Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence.
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I don't want to look at something that determines me so completely.
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he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.
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Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress.
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Where do the words go when we have said them?
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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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Always good to take a look at the long list for the Mann Booker, for the Commonwealth. It gives you an overview.There is so much going on all over the world that it's impossible for one person to keep up. And I can't.
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All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.
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A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.
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I am rather saddened at the end of a book. I think most writers find this. It's like a friend departing on a voyage.
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Laughter may instruct but it may also conceal, defending the joker against anger and retaliation: a game is only a game.
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