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• Knowing was a temptation. What you don’t know won’t tempt you.

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• Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.

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• Though at that time men and women tried each other on, casually, like suits, rejecting whatever did not fit.

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• Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.

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• It wasn’t so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly.

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• I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.

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• This is how the girl who couldn’t speak and the man who couldn’t see fell in love.

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• Nobody dies from the lack of sex. It’s lack of love we die from.

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• If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.

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• It must have been then that I began to lose faith in reasonable argument as the sole measure of truth.

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• To pronounce the name of the dead is to make them live again.

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• Publishing a book is often very much like being put on trial for some offence which is quite other than the one you know in your heart you’ve committed.

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• His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.

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• Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? An older woman knows. But how much older do you have to get before you acquire that kind of wisdom?

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• Canada was open for business. And closed for everything else.

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• At some time during that hour, though not for the whole hour, I forgot what things were called and saw instead what they are.

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• To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self.

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• You are suspended in me beautiful and frozen, I preserve you, in me you are safe.

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• Mirrors are the perfect lovers.

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• This above all, to refuse to be a victim.Unless I can do that I am nothing.

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Margaret Atwood (87)

Birth:	18th November, 1939
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Novelist, Poet

About

Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once, and has been a finalist for the Governor General's Award several times, winning twice. She is also a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada, a non-profit literary organization that seeks to encourage Canada's writing community.

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