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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
Renewed
Poetry
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But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling.
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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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There is something reassuring about the toilets. Bodily functions at least remain democratic. Everybody shits.
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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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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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In view of the fading animals the proliferation of sewers and fears the sea clogging, the air nearing extinction we should be kind, we should take warning, we should forgive each other Instead we are opposite, we touch as though attacking, the gifts we bring even in good faith maybe warp in our hands to implements, to manoeuvres
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There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.
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Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.
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Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.
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As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter.
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I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together no, I'm taking it apart. If you'd wanted the narrative line you should have asked earlier, when I still knew everything and was more than willing to tell. That was before I discovered the virtues of scissors, the virtues of matches.
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Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out.
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What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!
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A truth should exist, it should not be used like this. If I love you is that a fact or a weapon?
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Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.
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Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.
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Karen wasn't hard, she was soft, too soft. A soft touch. Her hair was soft, her smile was soft, her voice was soft. She was so soft there was no resistance. Hard things sank into her, they went right through her, and if she made a real effort, out the other side. Then she didn't have to see them or hear them, or even touch them.
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So much better to travel than to arrive.
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The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that's because I'm doing it wrong.
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You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye
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