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I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing one thing, I like to do just that thing. — Margaret Atwood
Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — 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 don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's essentially just a long narrative… — 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
I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when the new technology… — Margaret Atwood
If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick up a book with spaceships… — Margaret Atwood
If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's also the environmental… — Margaret Atwood
The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one:… — Margaret Atwood
Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich, or aristocratic, they… — Margaret Atwood
Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. — Dean Acheson
Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. — 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
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. — Wystan Hugh Auden
It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ. — Wystan Hugh Auden
One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his… — 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
No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and… — 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
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with. — Frank Auerbach
One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.' — Norman Ralph Augustine

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