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The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
Margaret Atwood
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We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.
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The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
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The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.
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Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.
Margaret Atwood
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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
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We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
Margaret Atwood
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Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
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Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.
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In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
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