"The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love."
-Margaret Atwood
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"War is what happens when language fails."
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"Popular art is the dream of society it does not examine itself."
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"Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets."
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"If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don't want to open up my cornflakes and find that they're full of pebbles... You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn't."
-Margaret Atwood
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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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"Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently."
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"We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit."
-Jonathan Safran Foer
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