Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
("The Handmaid's Tale")
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But who can remember pain, once it's over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.Margaret Atwood
He is talking to people in Toronto, trying to find out if I am guilty; but he won't find it out that way. He doesn't understand yet that guilt comes to you not from the things you've done, but from the things that other have done for you.
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She even had a kind of special position among men she was an exception, she fitted none of the categories they commonly used when talking about girls she wasn't a cock-teaser, a cold fish, an easy lay or a snarky bitch she was an honorary person. She had grown to share their contempt for most women.
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What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves -- our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies.
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The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.
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Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term gain for long-term pain.
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