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Knows Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one.
- She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.
- She knows the rituals, she knows how we're supposed to be behaving...But I think these things are impenetrable and fraudulent, and I can't do them…
- Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will discover behind them…
- We have begun to slam doors, and to throw things. I throw my purse, an ashtray, a package of chocolate chips, which breaks on impact.…
- Nevertheless, blood is thicker than water, as anyone knows who has tasted both.
- What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and…
- Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician with the biggest…
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