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The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down. ↗

— John Aubrey

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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. ↗

— W. H. Auden

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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. ↗

— W. H. Auden

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We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons. ↗

— W. H. Auden

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do. ↗

— W. H. Auden

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