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Margaret Atwood _ The Heart Goes Last
The palliative care nurses welcome him: he's a spot of brightness, they claim he keeps the patients interested in life. "We don't think of the clients here as dying," one of them said to him on his first visit. "After all everyone's dying, just some of us more slowly.
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Margaret Atwood _ The Heart Goes Last
Stan got the message. He allowed the chicken assignations. What did that make him? A chicken pimp. Better than dead.
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Margaret Atwood _ The Heart Goes Last
what is is, as Grandma Win used to say, and what can't be cured must be endured, and laugh and the world laughs with you but cry and you cry alone.
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Margaret Atwood _ The Heart Goes Last
He shouldn't have let himself be caged in here, walled off from freedom. But what does freedom mean any more? And who had caged him and walled him off? He'd done it himself. So many small choices.
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Margaret Atwood _ The Heart Goes Last
Ed, knows power corrupts, they'll have experienced that first-hand. They'll see how I'd be tempted to use my own power for personal reasons. They may not approve of that, but they'll buy
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Margaret Atwood _ The Heart Goes Last
There is only so much manpower and tax revenue that can be devoted to riot control, to social surveillance, to chasing fast youths down dark alleyways, to fire-hosing and pepper-spraying suspicious-looking gatherings.
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Margaret Atwood _ The Heart Goes Last
a shocking 40 percent of the population in this region is jobless, with 50 percent of those being under twenty-five. That's a recipe for systems breakdown, right there: for anarchy, for chaos, for the senseless destruction of property, for so-called revolution, which means looting and gang rule and warlords and mass rape, and the terrorization of the weak and helpless."
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Margaret Atwood _ The Heart Goes Last
Chemistry can be like magic. It can be merciless.
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Margaret Atwood _ The Heart Goes Last
He can't shake the feeling that this place is some sort of pyramid scheme, and that those who fail to understand that will be left empty-handed. But there's no obvious reason for this feeling of his. Maybe he's ungrateful by nature.
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Margaret Atwood _ The Heart Goes Last
Congratulations on a good outcome! We've all been rooting for you." Charmaine wonders who's been doing the rooting, because she hasn't noticed anyone. But like so many things around here, maybe the rooting has taken place behind the scenes.
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Margaret Atwood _ The Heart Goes Last
With no orders to follow, she occupies her mind by painting her nails, which is a very soothing thing to do when you're anxious and keyed up. Some people like to throw objects, such as glasses of water or rocks, but nail painting is more positive. If more world leaders would take it up there would be less overall suffering, in her opinion. After
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Margaret Atwood _ The Heart Goes Last
Maybe they'll just take her someplace else, like an island, with the other people on it who are like her. People who don't fit in, but not criminal elements. Surely that's what they'll do.
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