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The Handmaid's Tale quotes

Margaret Atwood

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“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.” Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
“Don't let the bastards grind you down.” Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
“Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance” Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom.” Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
“When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.” Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
“people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.” Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.” Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

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