Margaret Atwood's Quote - The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important

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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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I dont think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. Its essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different. – 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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Springtime

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Ive never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. Its probably because they have forgotten their own. – Margaret Atwood

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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity. – Abraham Cowley

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