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Margaret Atwood

"If writing novels - and reading them - have any redeeming social value, it's probably that they force you to imagine what it's like to be somebody else. Which increasingly is something we all need to know."

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"If writing novels - and reading them - have any redeeming social value, it's probably that they force you to imagine what it's like to be somebody else. Which increasingly is something we all need to know."

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Donna Grant

"There are some great positive quotes out there that I can't quite share as I wonder how a victim in a war torn country could be expected to see from their perspective?"

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Donna Grant

"But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day."

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Donna Grant

"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."

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Donna Grant

"Maybe we have shoes so we can learn to walk in another's oath before judging their footsteps?"

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Donna Grant

"Because no one is walking in your shoes, only you feel the sores on your feet."

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Donna Grant

"Just because an impressive storm doesn't touch you, you must not find it beautiful! Lend an ear to the voices of those which are under the storm!"

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Donna Grant

"When someone is suffering, there is a deep, visceral reaction in the core of our being, a flood of empathy and a frightfully desperate compulsion to give aid."

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Donna Grant

"Weeping for other people's pain isn't true weeping if it doesn't come from deep down your heart."

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Donna Grant

"Before hurting others, feel the pain you will inflict on others."

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Donna Grant

"We always feel the brunt of the blow dealt to us, but hardly ever do we feel the impact we have on others. Why is that?"

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Margaret Atwood
"All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard."

Humor

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Margaret Atwood
"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."

Creativity

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Margaret Atwood
"Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along."

Imagination

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Margaret Atwood
"We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?"

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Margaret Atwood
"A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant."

Creativity

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

Love

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Margaret Atwood
"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?"

Conflict

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Margaret Atwood
"Could it be he was feeling a certain nostalgia for the war, despite its stench and meaningless carnage? For that questionless life of instinct?"

Emotion

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

Emotion

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Margaret Atwood
"Gardening is not a rational act."

Gardening

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