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You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it. — Margaret Atwood
If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof… — Margaret Atwood
A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's… — Margaret Atwood
I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more… — Margaret Atwood
I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look… — Margaret Atwood
We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for fuel but also… — Margaret Atwood
Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they don't know what's… — Margaret Atwood
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. — Wystan Hugh Auden
A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down… — Wystan Hugh Auden
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come… — Saint Augustine
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. — Saint Augustine
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. — Saint Augustine
I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within. — Saint Augustine
Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish. — Marcus Aurelius
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within… — Marcus Aurelius
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. — Jane Austen
It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get… — Paul Auster
My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair. — Diane Ackerman
Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets… — Diane Ackerman

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