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Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
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Non-Fiction Writer
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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The darkness is really out there. It's not something that's in my head, just. It's in my work because it's in the world.
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Those walls and bars are there for a reason,” said Crake. “Not to keep us out, but to keep them in. Mankind needs barriers in both cases.” “Them?” “Nature and God.” “I thought you didn’t believe in God,” said Jimmy. “I don’t believe in Nature either,” said Crake. “Or not with a capital N.
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When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.
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Even in the tragedies, [William] Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people who talk like aristocrats. He puts in idiots and fools.
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Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?
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How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.
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I have never had any problems with editors who wanted me to change my methods or point of view. I pay a lot of attention to editors, but in a different way. They sometimes catch mistakes and help with the order of poems in a book. I do not underestimate them! Indeed, I have been one myself.
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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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When I was 16 I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. My main feedback came from my English teacher, Miss Bessie B. Billings, who said, 'I can't understand this at all, dear, so it must be good.
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Write down the thoughts and even more, write down a specific line. If you don't, it'll fly away forever.
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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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