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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.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.
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But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.
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No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one.
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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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My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.
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In my dreams of this city I am always lost.
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I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was backpacked into the Quebec bush. I grew up in and out of the bush, in and out of Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie and Toronto.
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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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Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God.
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Poetry isn't written from the idea down. It's written from the phrase, line and stanza up, which is different from what your teacher taught you to do in school.
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friendship was always contingent.
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Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.
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I wish you good writing and good luck. Even if you've already done the good writing, you'll still need the good luck. It's a shark-filled lagoon out there. Cross your fingers and watch your back.
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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
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Why are we designed to see the world as supremely beautiful just as we're about to be snuffed? Do rabbits feel the same as the fox teeth bite down on their necks? Is it mercy?
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Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
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Just as if you do a mash-up of reality from the point of view of African Americans in this country, you're going to end up with something that will say, This is Black Lives Matter. It's not that people necessarily have started out from that premise. But if you're looking at reality, that will be the result because that is reality.
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You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see.
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But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another.
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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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