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There's a difference between ...

There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up in the reader. That's what writers do when they're good.

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Some people mistakenly think ...

Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

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Social media is called social...

Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.

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You can examine the whole 19t...

You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have maxed hers out. No question. Mr. Scrooge would not have. He would have snipped his up.

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I was born in the Ottawa Gene...

I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was backpacked into the Quebec bush. I grew up in and out of the bush, in and out of Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie and Toronto.

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There would be no Sherlock Ho...

There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication.

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Younger people have greatest ...

Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they don't know what's going to happen to them.

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I particularly like Twitter, ...

I particularly like Twitter, because it's short and can be very funny and informative. It's a little bit like having your own radio program.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

You could tell 'The Handmaid'...

You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting.

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Religions in general have to ...

Religions in general have to rediscover their roots. In Hinduism and the Koran, animals are described as equals. If you walk into a cathedral and look at the decorations of early Christianity, there are vines, animals, creatures and birds thriving all over the stonework.

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Hope drives us to invent new ...

Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician with the biggest empty promise; and as any stockbroker or lottery seller knows, most of us will take a slim hope over prudent and predictable frugality. Hope, like greed, fuels the engine of capitalism.

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Lose your temper and you lose...

Lose your temper and you lose the fight.

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Anybody who writes a book is ...

Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Second, they think somebody's going to publish it. Third, they think somebody's going to read it. Fourth, they think somebody's going to like it. How optimistic is that?

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Things musicals taught me: Al...

Things musicals taught me: All your problems will go away if you sing about it.

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Men and women are not "equal"...

Men and women are not "equal" if "equal" means "exactly the same." Our many puzzlements and indeed unhappinesses come from trying to figure out what the differences really mean, or should mean, or should not mean.

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And yet it disturbs me to lea...

And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.

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Oppression involves a failure...

Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.

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Better never means better for...

Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.

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There were a lot of gods. God...

There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.

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Nature is to zoos as God is t...

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

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