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She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation. In spirit she walks the city, traces its labyrinths, its dingy mazes: each assignation, each rendezvous, each door and stair and bed. What he said, what she said, what they did, what they did then. Even the times they argued, fought, parted, agonized, rejoined. How they’d loved to cut themselves on each other, taste their own blood. We were ruinous together, she thinks. But how else can we live, these days, except in the midst of ruin?

Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood's Popular Quotes

I tell, therefore you are.

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Faith is only a word, embroidered.

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friendship was always contingent.

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There is never only one, of anyone

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I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

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You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see.

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Don't wait until you're 'in the mood.' Get into the mood by writing.

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Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.

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In the end, we'll all become stories.

- Margaret Atwood
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