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.
("The Handmaid's Tale")
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Paper isn't important. It's the words on them that are important.Margaret Atwood
I would like to believe this is a story I'm telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it. Those who can believe that such stories are only stories have a better chance. If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending. Then there will be an ending, to the story, and real life will come after it. I can pick up where I left off.
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This is the middle of my life, I think of it as a place, like the middle of a river, the middle of a bridge, halfway across, halfway over. I'm supposed to have accumulated things by now: possessions, responsibilities, achievements, experience and wisdom. I'm supposed to be a person of substance.
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Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.
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There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
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I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.
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