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When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters, the slope of a shoulder, the angle of a hip. Looking at them sideways, I examine them in different lights. My love for them is visual: that is the part of them I would like to possess. Don’t move, I think. Stay like that, let me have that.

Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood's Popular Quotes

I tell, therefore you are.

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friendship was always contingent.

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Faith is only a word, embroidered.

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There is never only one, of anyone

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I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

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You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see.

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In the end, we'll all become stories.

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Don't wait until you're 'in the mood.' Get into the mood by writing.

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Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.

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