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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
Essayist
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly.
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The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.
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To want is to have a weakness.
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I am rather saddened at the end of a book. I think most writers find this. It's like a friend departing on a voyage.
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Her glass wings are gone.
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The problem is huge. We've just added seventy-five million people to the already large proportion of people in the world who are malnourished all the time, whose bodies are being starved.
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Modesty is invisibility... Never forget it. To be seen - to be seen - is to be... penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
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Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.
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They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.
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More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?
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So much better to travel than to arrive.
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The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I don't think I solve problems in my poetry I think I uncover the problems.
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Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
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There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.
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