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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.
Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood
Age: 84
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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If you're a woman writer, sometime, somewhere, you will be asked: Do you think of yourself as a writer first, or as a woman first? Look out. Whoever asks this hates and fears both writing and women.
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Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out.
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Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them.
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poetry is where the language is renewed.
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Come away with me, he said, we will live on a desert island. I said, I am a desert island. It was not what he had in mind.
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