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I have tried and failed to lead a conventional life. When I try to be like other people, I fall out of bed.
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She belonged to a generation of women who had been well fed on meat and potatoes and some of their bodies could not forget this.
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Happiness is a fragile thing, and alcohol, as I know from the house I grew up in, is dangerous to it.
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There's a kind of virgin one only becomes with difficulty.
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Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'.
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Marian Engel
Born:
May 24, 1933
Died:
February 16, 1985
(aged 51)
Bio:
Marian Engel, née Marian Ruth Passmore was an award-winning Canadian novelist and a founding member of the Writers' Union of Canada.
Known for:
The Honeyman festival (1970)
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Tattooed Woman (1985)
Encyclopedia of Birth Control
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