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Turns Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- No more photos. Surely there are enough. No more shadows of myself thrown by light onto pieces of paper, onto squares of plastic. No more…
- Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start…
- I feel like cotton candy: sugar and air. Squeeze me and I’d turn into a small sickly damp wad of weeping pinky-red.
- When they came to harvest my corpse (open your mouth, close your eyes) cut my body from the rope, surprise, surprise: I was still alive.…
- In his student days, he used to argue that if a woman has no other course open to her but starvation, prostitution, or throwing herself…
- What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!
- 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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