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

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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Science Fiction Writer
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a log across a river.
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You can think clearly only with your clothes on.
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I suppose these deadlines we set for ourselves are really a way of saying we appreciate time, and want to use all of it.
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I look up at the ceiling, tracing the foliage of the wreath. Today it makes me think of a hat, the large-brimmed hats women used to wear at some period during the old days: hats like enormous halos, festooned with fruit and flowers, and the feathers of exotic birds hats like an idea of paradise, floating just above the head, a thought solidified.
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Why are you so interested in amoebas? Oh, they're immortal, he said, and sort of shapeless and flexible. Being a person is getting too complicated.
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Toast is me. I am toast.
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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
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You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye
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How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation's mighty seed - For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.
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Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.
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I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when the new technology goes down, the immediate fallback position is either that technology just before that or one several technologies back.
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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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I'm with the spirit of Earth-Day-yet-to-come. Nobody can really predict the future, all you can do is look at trends, and that could change at any moment.
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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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My parents were gardeners themselves, and perforce they used environmental techniques because it was during the war, and you didn't have the new sorts of chemicals.
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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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Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?
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There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.
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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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All fat women look the same they all look 42.
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