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I particularly like Twitter, because it's short and can be very funny and informative. It's a little bit like having your own radio program. — Margaret Atwood
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
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
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own. — Wystan Hugh Auden
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although… — John James Audubon
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. — Saint Augustine
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on… — Marcus Aurelius
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. — 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
Each day provides its own gifts. — Marcus Aurelius
Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea… — Sri Aurobindo
One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best. — Jane Austen
Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness… — Jane Austen
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. — Jane Austen
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has… — Jane Austen
Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick… — Paul Auster
For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its… — Paul Auster
The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we… — Paul Auster
I don't want to be a passenger in my own life. — Diane Ackerman

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