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Don't let the bastards grind you down. — Margaret Atwood

Novel · Dystopian fiction

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

In the original Greek

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.

Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale · 1985
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Topic
Inner strengthResilience
Genre
Dystopian fiction
Medium
Novel
Time
1985
Person
Margaret Atwood
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Citation
Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale. McClelland and Stewart/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1985, ch. 29.

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