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I don't think it's a question of whether you eat meat. It's a question of what kind of meat, and where it comes from.

Margaret Atwood

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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
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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His mouth is on me, his hands, I can't wait and he's moving, already, love, it's been so long, I'm alive in my skin, again, arms around him, falling and water softly everywhere, never-ending.
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I’m not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don’t know what to say. I know the unspoken rules of boys, but with girls I sense that I am always on the verge of some unforeseen, calamitous blunder.
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Screw poetry, it’s you I want, your taste, rain on you, mouth on your skin.
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I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will.
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...how much needless despair has been caused by a series of biological mismatches, a misalignment of the hormones and pheromones? Resulting in the fact that the one you love so passionately won't or can't love you. As a species we're pathetic that way: imperfectly monogamous.
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Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.
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Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.
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I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.
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Every novel is-at the beginning-the same opening of a door onto a completely unknown space.
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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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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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Where do you draw the line, between love and greed? We never did know, we always wanted more. We want to take it all in, for one last time, we want to eat the world with our eyes.
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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.
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Though as he'd say, what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?
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What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!
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at last you, will say (maybe without speaking) (there are mountains inside your skull garden and chaos, ocean and hurricane certain corners of rooms, portraits of great-grandmothers, curtains of a particular shade your deserts your private dinosaurs the first woman) all i need to know: tell me everything just as it was from the beginning.
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Now I can see how that can happen. You can fall in love with anybody--a fool, a criminal, a nothing. There are no good rules.
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You aren't sick & unhappy only alive & stuck with it.
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There is so much going on all over the world that it's impossible for one person to keep up. And I can't.
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We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.
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