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Always good to take a look at the long list for the Mann Booker, for the Commonwealth. It gives you an overview.There is so much going on all over the world that it's impossible for one person to keep up. And I can't.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
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To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self. She is living selflessly, she finds a hole in the stone wall and on the other side of the wall, a voice. The voice comes through darkness and has no face. This voice becomes her mirror.
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we lived in the gaps between the stories
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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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But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.
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Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?
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I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.
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Don't let the bastards grind you down.
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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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The proper study of Mankind is Everything.
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All fat women look the same they all look 42.
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Perhaps they were looking for passion perhaps they delved into this book as into a mysterious parcel - a gift box at the bottom of which, hidden in layers of rustling tissue paper, lay something they'd always longed for but couldn't ever grasp.
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Axiom: you are a sea. Your eye- lids curve over chaos My hands where they touch you, create small inhabited islands soon you will be all earth: a known land, a country.
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And consider: it is loss to which everything flows, absence in which everything flowers
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Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language. We eat before we talk.
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he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.
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The problem is huge. We've just added seventy-five million people to the already large proportion of people in the world who are malnourished all the time, whose bodies are being starved.
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There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it.
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All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.
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I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.
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Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.
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