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A Paradox, the doughnut hole....

A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

It's only afterwards that it ...

It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you're telling it, to yourself or to someone else.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

I used to act in college, but...

I used to act in college, but always comedy. Didn't do [William] Shakespeare - did Ben Jonson.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

We love each other, that’s tr...

We love each other, that’s true whatever it means, but we aren’t good at it; for some it’s a talent, for others only an addiction.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

If it's a story I'm telling, ...

If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending... But if it's a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone. You don't tell a story only to yourself. There's always someone else. Even when there is no one.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

Though as he'd say, what is '...

Though as he'd say, what is 'belief' but a willingness to suspend the negatives?

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

All I can hope for is a recon...

All I can hope for is a reconstruction: the way love feels is always only approximate.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

I myself discovered many auth...

I myself discovered many authors through school reading lists and through school anthologies. The positives are: young readers can find the world opening up to them through books they study. The negatives may include bad experiences kids have - if they don't like the book or the teacher, or the way the book is taught.

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You always think, 'Oh, if onl...

You always think, 'Oh, if only I had a little chalet in the mountains! How great that would be and I'd do all this writing' Except, no, I wouldn't. I'd do the same amount of writing I do now and the rest of the time I'd go stir crazy. If you're waiting for the perfect moment you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There's nothing foolproof.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

The fact is that blank pages ...

The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them? Will it be good enough? Will I have to throw it out?

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

Your hand is a warm stone I h...

Your hand is a warm stone I hold between two words.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

People talking about politics...

People talking about politics usually start from the ass end backwards in that they think you have a political agenda, and then you make your work fit that cookie cutter. It's the other way around. One works by simple observation, looking into things. It's usually called insight and out of that comes your view - not that you have the view first and then squash everything to make it fit. I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.

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If you knew what was going to...

If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.

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Karen wasn't hard, she was so...

Karen wasn't hard, she was soft, too soft. A soft touch. Her hair was soft, her smile was soft, her voice was soft. She was so soft there was no resistance. Hard things sank into her, they went right through her, and if she made a real effort, out the other side. Then she didn't have to see them or hear them, or even touch them.

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Disease has always been a muc...

Disease has always been a much bigger killer of human beings than wars.

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There's more than one way to ...

There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want to skin a cat even one way.

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At the very least we want a w...

At the very least we want a witness. We can't stand the idea of our own voices falling silent finally, like a radio running down.

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expectation isn't the same as...

expectation isn't the same as desire

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You can’t buy it, but it has ...

You can’t buy it, but it has a price,” said Oryx. “Everything has a price.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

Make the verses flow together...

Make the verses flow together. If a following verse has nothing to do with the previous, you may lose our listener/reader. You want a smooth flow to hear or read, and it's easier to memorize.

Margaret Atwood 838 quotes

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