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  1. Margaret Atwood _ Lady Oracle

    There was always that shadowy twin, thin when i was fat, fat when i was thin, myself in silvery narrative...
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  2. Margaret Atwood _ Lady Oracle

    He had been with me, but he wasn't with me now, we had been walking along a street like this one and then the future swept over us and we were separated. He was in the distance now, across the ocean, on a beach, the wind ruffling his hair, I could hardly see his features. He was moving at an ever-increasing speed away from me, into the land of the dead, the dead past, irretrievable.
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  3. Margaret Atwood _ Lady Oracle

    Besides, who would think of marrying a mothball? A question my mother put to me often, later, in other forms.
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  4. Margaret Atwood _ Lady Oracle

    I would pore for hours over the stalls of worn necklaces, sets of gilt spoons, sugar tongs in the shape of hen's feet or midget hands, clocks that didn't work, flowered china, spotty mirrors and ponderous furniture, the flotsam left by those receding centuries in which, more and more, I was living.
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  5. Margaret Atwood _ Lady Oracle

    I sang out the words unflinchingly though, as I stomped around the toadstool in clouds of church-basement dust, with a damp Gnome hand clutched in each of mine.
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  6. Margaret Atwood _ Lady Oracle

    you can't change the past,Aunt Lou used to say.Oh, but I wanted to;that was the one thing I really wanted to do
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  7. Margaret Atwood _ Lady Oracle

    to fix and make plausible, the nebulous emotions of my costumed heroins, like diamonds on a sea of dough.
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  8. Margaret Atwood _ Lady Oracle

    . . . they lurk passively, like vampire sheep
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  9. Margaret Atwood _ Lady Oracle

    It's no good thinking you're invisible if you aren't
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  10. Margaret Atwood _ Lady Oracle

    Now I wanted to be acknowledged, but I feared it.
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  11. Margaret Atwood _ Lady Oracle

    His view of the world featured swift disasters set against a background of lurking doom, my cooking did nothing to contradict it.
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  12. Margaret Atwood _ Lady Oracle

    If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all.
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