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Margaret Atwood
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
Inventor
Literary Critic
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Pedagogue
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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If a god showed up every time you put a quarter in the prayer slot it wouldn't be God, it would be a puppet that you could control by doing that...that would make the deity subservient to you. So it wouldn't be a deity would it?
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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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Never mind. Point being that you don't have to get too worked up about us, dear educated minds. You don't have to think of us aas real girls, real flesh and blood, real pain, real injustice. That might be too upsetting. Just discard the sordid part. Consider us pure symbol. We're no more real than money.
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and each of his voices left his body in a different colored soul and floated up towards the sun still singing.
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As human beings, we are always torn between individual freedom and the ability of choose our actions, and the need for at least enough social structure so that anarchy, chaos, and warlordery - or the war of all against all - can be avoided.
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He needed to exist only in the present, without guilt, without expectation.
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All fat women look the same they all look 42.
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I would not change [my past work] anymore than I would airbrush a photo of myself.
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... Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.
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Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
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It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons.
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I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.
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I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.
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There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.
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All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.
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I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.
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Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered.
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This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.
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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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If you want to be a writer, you should go into the largest library you can find and stand there contemplating the books that have been written. Then you should ask yourself, 'Do I really have anything to add?' If you have the arrogance or the humility to say yes, you will know you have the vocation.
Margaret Atwood