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If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 85
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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Make the verses flow together. If a following verse has nothing to do with the previous, you may lose our listener/reader. You want a smooth flow to hear or read, and it's easier to memorize.
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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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Everybody acts as if they have free will. They act as if they can make these decisions do they know they don't? I think there's been some back-down on the idea that everything is determined.
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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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Richard liked to say he picked things up for a song, which was odd, because he never sang. He never even whistled. He was not a musical person.
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Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion...Sanity is a valuable possession I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.
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Moira was like an elevator with open sides. She made us dizzy.
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Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage them. For instance, men often faint at the sight of their own blood, to which they are not accustomed. For this reason you should never stand behind one in the line at the Red Cross donor clinic.
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I myself have 12 hats and each one represents a different personality. Why just be yourself.
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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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Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back it was always there in oral storytelling.
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Imagine a famine. Now imagine a piece of bread. Both of these things are real but you happen to be in the same room with only one of them. Put yourself into a different room, that’s what the mind is for.
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Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate it would be romance, bad luck.
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But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.
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The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.
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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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Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.
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If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon?
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