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  1. Margaret Atwood _ Moral Disorder and Other

    You can't lead if no one will follow.
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  2. Margaret Atwood _ Moral Disorder and Other

    But all doors used regularly are doors to the afterlife.
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  3. Margaret Atwood _ Moral Disorder and Other

    One boy had drawn a perfect isosceles triangle on every single page- meticulously, it was emphasized. Meticulously was a chilling touch: meticulousness, we knew, was just one step away from full-blown lunacy.
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  4. Margaret Atwood _ Moral Disorder and Other

    I thought of myself as an itinerant brain--the equivalent of a strolling player of Elizabethan times, or else a troubadour, clutching my university degree like a cheap lute.
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  5. Margaret Atwood _ Moral Disorder and Other

    bye-bye love, as in songs. All alone now. It was so sad. Why did such things have to disintegrate like that? Why did longing and desire, and friendliness and goodwill too, have to shatter into pieces? Why did they have to be so thoroughfully over?I could make myself cry even more by repeating the key word: love,alone, sad, over. I did it on purpose.
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  6. Margaret Atwood _ Moral Disorder and Other

    Breasts were one thing: they were in front, where you could have some control over them. Then there were bums, which were behind, and out of sight, and thus more lawless. Apart from loosely gathered skirts, nothing much could be done about them.
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  7. Margaret Atwood _ Moral Disorder and Other

    That was all quite long ago. I see it in retrospect, indulgently, from the point I've reached now. But how else could I see it. We can't really travel to the past, no matter how we try. if we do, it's as tourists.
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  8. Margaret Atwood _ Moral Disorder and Other

    I could do a good imitation of a competent young woman.
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  9. Margaret Atwood _ Moral Disorder and Other

    That image - of a little child being suffocated, or almost suffocated, by others who thought the whole thing was a game - melded with the furtive nocturnal slugs, and my solitary pacing and singing, and the separate, claustrophobic stairway, and the charmless abstract painting, and the gold-framed mirror, and the slithery green satin bedspread, and became inseperable from them. It wasn't a cheerful composite. As a memory, it is more like a fog bank than a sunlit meadow. Yet I think of that period as having been a happy time in my life.Happy is the wrong word. Important.
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  10. Margaret Atwood _ Moral Disorder and Other

    She would roll up her sleeves and dispense with sentimentality, and do whatever blood-soaked, bad-smelling thing had to be done. She would become adept with axes.
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  11. Margaret Atwood _ Moral Disorder and Other

    Dead was not an absolute concept to her. Some people were more dead than others, and finally it was a matter of opinion who was dead and who was alive, so it was best not to discuss such a thing.
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  12. Margaret Atwood _ Moral Disorder and Other

    In pictures like these there are always empty shoes. It's the shoes that get to me. Sad, that innocent daily task - putting your shoes on your feet, in the firm belief that you'll be going somewhere.
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