making final judgements about poets, cities or regions on the basis of an anthology is always dangerous: anthologies … - Margaret Atwood

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Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind. Have no fear for atomic energy, 'cause none of them can stop the time.

Margaret Atwood

making final judgements about poets, cities or regions on the basis of an anthology is always dangerous: anthologies are mirages created, finally, by their editors.

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Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

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If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.

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Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water.

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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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