Margaret Atwood Quotes: I am certain that a Sewing Machine would…

I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.

("Alias Grace")

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He feels the need to hear a human voiceùa fully human voice like his own. Sometimes he laughs like a hyena or roars like a lionùhis idea of a hyena his idea of a lion.
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These albums were thick with babies, but my replicas thinned out as I grew older, as if the population of my duplicates had been hit with some plague.
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When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard powerless to stop it. It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you are telling it, to yourself or to someone else.
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Moira was like an elevator with open sides. She made us dizzy.
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We lived, as usual by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
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But if it's selfless
love you're looking for,
you've got the wrong goddess.
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