Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

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Adult Age Am Another

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Reality simply consists of different points of view.

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Consists Different Points Reality

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Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.

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Across Back Borders Boxes

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Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

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Credentials Establish Heroes Heroic

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Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

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Better Means Optimism Pessimism

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We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

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Anomaly Born Leader Man

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In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

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Day Dirt End End Of The Day

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Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.

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After Been Caught Consequences

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I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

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Come Finally Hope Human

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A word after a word after a word is power.

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After Power Word

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Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

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Am Because Being Capable

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If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

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Canada Illness Mental Mental Illness

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A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

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Divorce Less Like Survive

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An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

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Blindness Eye Eye For An Eye

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If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

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Any Because Catholicism Choose

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Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

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Because Get Justice Might

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Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

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Art Does Dream Examine Itself

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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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Because Consider Forgotten Freedom Joy

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A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

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Built Evolved Failures Process

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You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

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Amount Certain Need Nerve

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This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

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Above Refuse Victim

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For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

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Am I Am Now Older

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War is what happens when language fails.

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Fails Happens Language War

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Act Gardening Rational

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Canada was built on dead beavers.

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Beaver Built Canada Dead

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The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

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Answers Depend Get Literature

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We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

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Away Grownups Now Running

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The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

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Because Had Important Love

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Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

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Ancient Did Find Meaning

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The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

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Hold Many Odyssey Story

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A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

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Cherished Fully Gift Go

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All fat women look the same; they all look 42.

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Fat Look Same Women

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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

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Adult Another Cute Girl

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Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

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Close Clues Fist Hold

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If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.

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Never Perfection Waited Word

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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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Certain Characters Cutting Feet

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"36 Margaret Atwood Quotes & Sayings

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Margaret Atwood

Reality simply consists of different points of view.

Margaret Atwood

Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.

Margaret Atwood

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

Margaret Atwood

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Margaret Atwood

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.

Margaret Atwood

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

Margaret Atwood

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Margaret Atwood

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

Margaret Atwood

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

Margaret Atwood

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

Margaret Atwood

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Margaret Atwood

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

Margaret Atwood

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Margaret Atwood

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

Margaret Atwood

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

Margaret Atwood

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

Margaret Atwood

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

Margaret Atwood

War is what happens when language fails.

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood

Canada was built on dead beavers.

Margaret Atwood

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

Margaret Atwood

We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

Margaret Atwood

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

Margaret Atwood

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

Margaret Atwood

All fat women look the same; they all look 42.

Margaret Atwood

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

Margaret Atwood

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

Margaret Atwood

If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.

Margaret Atwood

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood Quotes & Sayings

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