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Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that… — Margaret Atwood
Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such… — Margaret Atwood
If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your… — Margaret Atwood
If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author… — Margaret Atwood
Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways… — Margaret Atwood
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or… — Kevyn Aucoin
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when… — Wystan Hugh Auden
All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. — Wystan Hugh Auden
In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. — Wystan Hugh Auden
We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons. — Wystan Hugh Auden
You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on… — Wystan Hugh Auden
It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one… — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until… — Wystan Hugh Auden
During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks. — John James Audubon
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other… — Saint Augustine
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto… — Saint Augustine

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