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  1. Margaret Atwood _ The Edible Woman

    You read and read the material and after you've read the twentieth article you can't make any sense out of it anymore, and then you start thinking about the number of books that are published in any given year, in any given month, in any given week, and that's just too much. Words,' he said, looking in my direction finally but with his eyes strangely unfocussed, as though he was really looking at a point several inches beneath my skin, 'are beginning to lose their meanings.' The
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  2. Margaret Atwood _ The Edible Woman

    The human mind was the last thing to be commercialized but they're doing a good job of it now;
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  3. Margaret Atwood _ The Edible Woman

    I know I was alright on Friday when I got up; if anything I was feeling more stolid than usual.
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  4. Margaret Atwood _ The Edible Woman

    I wonder why trying to transcend time never even succeeds in stopping it...
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  5. Margaret Atwood _ The Edible Woman

    The imprint left on her mind by the long famished body that had seemed in the darkness to consist of nothing by sharp crags and angles, the memory of its painfully-defined almost skeletal ribcage, a pattern of ridges like a washboard, was fading as rapidly as any other transient impression on a soft surface.
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  6. Margaret Atwood _ The Edible Woman

    I sort of like watching them," he said; "I watch laundromat washers the way other people watch television, it's soothing because you always know what to expect and you don't have to think about it. Except I can vary my programmes a little; if I get tired of watching the same stuff I can always put in a pair of green socks or something colourful like that.
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  7. Margaret Atwood _ The Edible Woman

    What has having a baby got to do with getting a job at an art gallery? You're always thinking in terms of either/or. The thing is wholeness.
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  8. Margaret Atwood _ The Edible Woman

    What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and everybody knows it.
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  9. Margaret Atwood _ The Edible Woman

    Looking down, she became aware of the water, which was covered with a film of calcinous hard-water particles of dirt and soap, and of the body that was sitting in it, somehow no longer quite her own. All at once she was afraid that she was dissolving, coming apart layer by layer like a piece of cardboard in a gutter puddle.
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  10. Margaret Atwood _ The Edible Woman

    What fiendishness went on in kitchens across the country, in the name of providing food!
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  11. Margaret Atwood _ The Edible Woman

    I can tell you're admiring my febrility. I know it's appealing, I practice at it; every woman loves an invalid. But be careful. You might do something destructive: hunger is more basic than love. Florence Nightingale was a cannibal you know.
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  12. Margaret Atwood _ The Edible Woman

    Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock.
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