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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
Inventor
Literary Critic
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave - The water below is as dark as the grave, And maybe you'll sink in your little blue boat - It's hope, and hope only, that keeps us afloat
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In the evenings there's been thunder, a distant bumping and stumbling, like God on a sullen binge.
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Though as he'd say, what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?
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If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.
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I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow.
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I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree.
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The act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how.
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You're dead, Cordelia.' No I'm not. 'Yes you are. You're dead. Lie down.
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Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.
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I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.
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A truth should exist, it should not be used like this. If I love you is that a fact or a weapon?
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He’d developed a strangely tender feeling towards such words, as if they were children abandoned in the woods and it was his duty to rescue them.
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The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make the hard-hearted feel. Make the deaf hear.
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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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As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.
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As William Gibson says, the future is already here but it's lumpy. It's unevenly distributed. Some people are already living this, the ones on low-lying islands off the coast of India are being swept away, you know, it's already happening to some people. We happen to be very lucky so far.
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Roughing it builds a boy's character, but only certain kinds of roughing it.
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How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.
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This afternoon held that special quality of mournful emptiness I've connected with late Sunday afternoons ever since childhood: the feeling of having nothing to do.
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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.
Margaret Atwood