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The characters [of The Tempest] have always been favorites of mine. It is one of his meditations on art - what it does.
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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More quotes by Margaret Atwood
Things might have been different if she hadn't been able to drift if she'd had to concentrate on her next meal, instead of dwelling on all the injuries she felt we'd done her. An unearned income encourages self-pity in those already prone to it.
Margaret Atwood
The responsible treatment of this particular Ring of Power is not necessarily to toss it into the Cracks of Doom. But we have to come up with something rather quickly, or what we'll get is the Land of Mordor.
Margaret Atwood
By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.
Margaret Atwood
I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.
Margaret Atwood
You can pretty much trace when the big individual indebtedness kicked in, and it was when the credit card became generally available.
Margaret Atwood
Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.
Margaret Atwood
I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.
Margaret Atwood
We've learned to see the world in gasps.
Margaret Atwood
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.
Margaret Atwood
I am not your justification for existence.
Margaret Atwood
When we're young, we like happy endings. When we're a little older, we think happy endings are unrealistic and so we prefer bad but credible endings. When we're older still, we realize happy endings aren't so bad after all.
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You aren't sick & unhappy only alive & stuck with it.
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In my dreams of this city I am always lost.
Margaret Atwood
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.
Margaret Atwood
Even an obvious fabrication is some comfort when you have few others.
Margaret Atwood
We pulled the seeds out and scattered them on their flossy parachutes, leaving only the leathery brownish yellow tongue, soft as the inside of an elbow.
Margaret Atwood
As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.
Margaret Atwood
The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.
Margaret Atwood
I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea.
Margaret Atwood
But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men.
Margaret Atwood
