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  1. Margaret Atwood _ The Tent

    Everyone believed him of course, but you always knew with Salome that if anyone's head was going to roll it wouldn't be hers.
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  2. Margaret Atwood _ The Tent

    I suffer from my own multiplicity. Two or three images would have been enough, or four, or five. That would be allowed for a firm idea: This is she. As it is, I'm watery, I ripple, from moment to moment I dissolve into my other selves.
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  3. Margaret Atwood _ The Tent

    You're not my real parents, every child has thought. I'm not your real child. But with orphans, it's true. What freedom, to thumb your nose authentically!
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  4. Margaret Atwood _ The Tent

    Human beings- I've observed- are hot-wired for score keeping, and since they like to win, they're always going one better than the other fellow.
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  5. Margaret Atwood _ The Tent

    Walking was not fast enough, so we ran. Running was not fast enough, so we galloped. Galloping was not fast enough, so we sailed. Sailing was not fast enough, so we rolled merrily along on long metal tracks. Long metal tracks were not fast enough, so we drove. Driving was not fast enough, so we flew. Flying isn't fast enough for us. We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can walk, they used to say. In that case, where are all the souls? Left behind.
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  6. Margaret Atwood _ The Tent

    You don't understand much, he says. Why do you think I was lost in the impenetrable forest in the first place?
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  7. Margaret Atwood _ The Tent

    At this dim season of the year we hunger for such tales. Winter's tales, they are. We want to huddle round them, as if around a small but cheerful fire... It was the right thing to do on the darkest day of the year.
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  8. Margaret Atwood _ The Tent

    What are we do to? The child sex trade is not for us: our children are unattractive and rude, and - due to the knowledge of our history - have a bad habit of mugging prospective customers and shoving them over cliffs.
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  9. Margaret Atwood _ The Tent

    No more photos. Surely there are enough. No more shadows of myself thrown by light onto pieces of paper, onto squares of plastic.
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  10. Margaret Atwood _ The Tent

    I won't fatten them in cages, though. I won't ply them with poisoned fruit items. I won't change them into clockwork images or talking shadows. I won't drain out their life's blood. They can do all those things for themselves."
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  11. Margaret Atwood _ The Tent

    Life Stories: Why hunger for these? One, it fits a hunger. Maybe it is more like bossiness. Maybe we just want to be in charge of the life, no matter who lived it...
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  12. Margaret Atwood _ The Tent

    All observations of life are harsh, because life is.
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