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poetry is where the language is renewed.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
Inventor
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Non-Fiction Writer
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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Poetry
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Walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heartbreak. Trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless. The entertainment business. What voyeurs we have all become.
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I would not change [my past work] anymore than I would airbrush a photo of myself.
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If a stranger taps you on the ass and says, How's the little lady today! you will probably cringe. But if he's an American, he's only being friendly.
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How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation's mighty seed - For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.
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Marshall McLuhan is absolutely right, we are always looking in the rear view mirror.
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Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.
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And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.
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The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.
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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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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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We've learned to see the world in gasps.
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In high school, in 1956, at the age of sixteen, we were not taught creative writing. We were taught literature and grammar. So no one ever told me I couldn't write both prose and poetry, and I started out writing all the things I still write: poetry, prose fiction - which took me longer to get published - and non-fiction prose.
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If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.
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I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea.
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Powerlessness and silence go together.
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Instead I will say, Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers take me to your deaths. These are worth it. These are what I have come for.
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Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.
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I sometimes felt as if these marks on my body were a kind of code, which blossomed, then faded, like invisible ink held to a candle. But if they were a code, who held the key to it? I was sand, I was snow — written on, rewritten, smoothed over.
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We shouldn't have been so scornful we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.
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This above all, to refuse to be a victim.
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