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I grew up amongst biologists.

Margaret Atwood

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Margaret Atwood
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
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Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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Ah men, why do you want all this attention? I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutely necessary. What do you have to offer me I can't find otherwise except humiliation? Which I no longer need.
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You most likely need a thesaurus, a rudimentary grammar book, and a grip on reality. This latter means: there's no free lunch. Writing is work. It's also gambling. You don't get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but ­essentially you're on your own. Nobody is making you do this: you chose it, so don't whine.
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But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.
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Don't misunderstand me. I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and far more complicated. But sometimes it's hard to put up with.
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All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard.
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And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.
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She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.
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I felt white, drained of blood, cared for, purified. Peaceful.
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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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Richard liked to say he picked things up for a song, which was odd, because he never sang. He never even whistled. He was not a musical person.
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Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
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He doesn't know which is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there's the future. Sheer vertigo.
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A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
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