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It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because of what you say can never be exact, you always have to leave something out, there are too many parts, sides, crosscurrents, nuances; too many gestures, which could mean this or that, too many shapes which can never be fully described, too many flavors, in the air or on the tongue, half-colors, too many.
— Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale
Tags: writing, stories

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What you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very much.
— Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin
Tags: philosophy-of-life, philosophy, pain, loss, lies, learning, knowledge, ignorance, hurt
There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.
— Margaret Atwood
Tags: within, every, writing, good
There are two types of freedom in this world: freedom to and freedom from.
— Margaret Atwood
Tags: life-lessons, philosophy, truth, life
Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
— Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale
Tags: education
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 find out what everyone else takes for granted.
— Margaret Atwood Dancing Girls and Other Stories
Tags: writing
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