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I'm the only person you've ever met who has read Longfellow.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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Always good to take a look at the long list for the Mann Booker, for the Commonwealth. It gives you an overview.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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I always thought eating was a ridiculous activity anyway. I'd get out of it myself if I could, though you've got to do it to stay alive, they tell me.
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We battled in secret, undeclared, and after a while I no longer fought back because I never won. The only defense was flight, invisibility.
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The proper study of Mankind is Everything.
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Toast is me. I am toast.
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There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
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You aren't sick & unhappy only alive & stuck with it.
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Where do the words go when we have said them?
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The cat jumps up on the bed and tries to get onto my head. It's his way of telling whether or not i'm dead. If i'm not, he wants to be scratched if i am - he'll think of something
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I never say I'm an ist of any kind unless I know how the other person is defining it.
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Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like a book that was ever finished, /like a locked-up library.
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What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.
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Knowledge is power only as long as you keep your mouth shut.
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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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Her glass wings are gone.
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I did ... learn an important distinction in graduate school: a speculation about who had syphilis when is gossip if it's about your friends, a plot element if it's about a character in a novel, and scholarship if it's about John Keats.
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You might 'write from the heart,' but you'd better polish with your brain.
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Faith is only a word, embroidered.
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