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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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Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them.
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This afternoon held that special quality of mournful emptiness I've connected with late Sunday afternoons ever since childhood: the feeling of having nothing to do.
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The Human moral keyboard is limited ... there's nothing you can play on it that hasn't been played before. And, my dear Friends, I am sorry to say this, but it has its lower notes.
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I write as if I've lived a lot of things I haven't lived.
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What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.
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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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I never say I'm an ist of any kind unless I know how the other person is defining it.
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No male writer is likely to be asked to sit on a panel addressing itself to the special problems of a male writer.
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She had no images of this love. She could offer no anecdotes. It was a belief rather than a memory.
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I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate. I would prefer to stay in the Writing Burrow and play with my imaginary friends and enemies. I get sucked into these things.
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Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.
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No matter how much you've been warned, Death always comes without knocking. Why now? is the cry. Why so soon? It's the cry of a child being called home at dusk.
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You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn’t necessarily get you the truth. Two and two equals a voice outside the window. Two and two equals the wind. The living bird is not its labeled bones.
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There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.
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There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it.
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In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys.
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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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