"A word after a word after a word is power."
-Margaret Atwood
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"Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.“
-Margaret Atwood
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"War is what happens when language fails."
-Margaret Atwood
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"Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets."
-Margaret Atwood
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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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"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
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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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"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."
-Bertrand Russell
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"What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew."
-Robert Browning
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"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
-Albert Einstein
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"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts."
-Marshall McLuhan
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