Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
("The Handmaid's Tale")
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My hands are out of practice, my eyes disused. Most of what I do is drawing, because the preparation of the surface, the laborious underpainting and detailed concentration... are too much for me. I have lost confidence: perhaps all I will ever be is what I am now.
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