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Margaret Atwood

"So we couldn't mingle with them, but we could eavesdrop. We got our knowledge that way-we caught it like germs."

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"So we couldn't mingle with them, but we could eavesdrop. We got our knowledge that way-we caught it like germs."

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"For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control. I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You go out there and wait for a wave, and when it comes it takes you somewhere and you don't know where it'll go."

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"This form of love is like the painof childbirth: so intenseit's hard to remember afterwards."

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"How did the war creep up? How did it gather itself together? What was it made from? What secrets, lies, betrayals? What loves and hatreds? What sums of money, what metals?"

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"Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck."

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"Gardening is not a rational act."

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"Her face is silting up, like a pond; layers are accumulating. Every once in a while, when she can afford the time, she spends a few days at a spa north of the city, drinking vegetable juice and having ultrasound treatments, in search of her original face, the one she knows is under there somewhere; she comes back feeling toned up and virtuous, and hungry."

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"An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness."

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"What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, criscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be."

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"Like preachers, I sell vision,like perfume ads, desireor its facsimile. Like jokesor war, it's all in the timing.I sell men back their worse suspicions:that everything's for sale."

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"It's all about sex and territory,which are what will finish us offin the long run."

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