But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.
("The Handmaid's Tale")
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For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive.
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Perhaps he's reached that state of intoxication which power is said to inspire, the state in which you believe you are indispensable and can therefore do anything, absolutely anything you feel like, anything at all.
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We've learned to see the world in gasps.
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I marvel again at the nakedness of men's lives: the showers right out in the open, the body exposed for inspection and comparison, the public display of privates. What is it for? What purposes of reassurance does it serve? The flashing of a badge, look, everyone, all is in order, I belong here. Why don't women have to prove to one another that they are women? Some form of unbuttoning, some split-crotch routine, just as casual. A doglike sniffing.
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