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Dystopian fiction6 quotes
Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from. — Margaret Atwood · 1985When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that. — Margaret Atwood · 1985But 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 · 1985Don't let the bastards grind you down. — Margaret Atwood · 1985But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot. — Margaret Atwood · 1985What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. — Margaret Atwood · 1985