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I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.
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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This above all, to refuse to be a victim.
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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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Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering unlike love.
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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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Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.
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The proper study of Mankind is Everything.
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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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In theory I can do almost anything certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as possible. I pretend to myself that I would be quite happy in a hermit's cave, living on gruel, if someone else would make the gruel. Gruel, like so many other things, is beyond me.
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People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.
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To want is to have a weakness.
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A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
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I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really a way of saying we appreciate time, and want to use all of it.
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You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a log across a river.
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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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All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard.
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Where there's a doctor it's always a bad sign. Even when they are not doing the killing themselves it means a death is close, and in that way they are like ravens or crows.
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By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.
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I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate.
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Keep an eye on the weather, which is changing faster than predicted, and on the new diseases escaping or being made, even as we speak. It's a race between new tech and biosphere bankruptcy, I'd say.
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Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.
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