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Plato said that poets should be excluded from the ideal republic because they are such liars. I am a poet, and I affirm that this is true. About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives; I know one of them who has floated at least five versions of his autobiography, none of them true. I of course - being also a novelist - am a much more truthful person than that. But since poets lie, how can you believe me?

Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood's Popular Quotes

I tell, therefore you are.

- Margaret Atwood

Faith is only a word, embroidered.

- Margaret Atwood

friendship was always contingent.

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There is never only one, of anyone

- Margaret Atwood

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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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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In the end, we'll all become stories.

- Margaret Atwood
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