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- Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
- Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted…
- Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage…
- Ah men, why do you want all this attention? I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutely necessary. What do…
- Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to…
- But we still find the world astounding, we can't get enough of it; even as it shrivels, even as its many lights flicker and are…
- My own view of myself was that I was small and innocuous, a marshmallow compared to the others. I was a poor shot with a…
- He has to find more and better ways of occupying his time. His time, what a bankrupt idea, as if he's been given a box…
- Blondes are like white mice, you only find them in cages. They wouldn’t last long in nature. They’re too conspicuous.
- You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.
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- Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. — Margaret Atwood