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A lot of the stuff Kafka said he thought was hilariously funny.

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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
Inventor
Literary Critic
Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
Pedagogue
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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What we share may be a lot like a traffic accident but we get one another. We are survivors of each other. We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat. That counts for something.
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No male writer is likely to be asked to sit on a panel addressing itself to the special problems of a male writer.
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To take that risk, to offer life and remain alive, open yourself like this and become whole.
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So much better to travel than to arrive.
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I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.
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The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.
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I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I want to steal something.
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The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.
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Everybody acts as if they have free will. They act as if they can make these decisions do they know they don't? I think there's been some back-down on the idea that everything is determined.
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All I can hope for is a reconstruction: the way love feels is always only approximate.
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It's his word against the Commander's, unless he wants to head a posse. Kick in the door, and what did I tell you? Caught in the act, sinfully Scrabbling. Quick, eat those words.
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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
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We've learned to see the world in gasps.
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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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It's clear, it's fresh, like a mint candy.
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As I was whizzing around the United States on yet another demented book tour, getting up at four in the morning to catch planes, doing two cities a day, eating the Pringle food object out of the mini-bar at night as I crawled around on the hotel room floor, too tired even to phone room service, I thought, 'There must be a better way of doing this'.
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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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For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control.... I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You go out there and wait for a wave, and when it comes it takes you somewhere and you don't know where it'll go.
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We slept in what had once been the gymnasium.
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Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
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