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7bab957
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Art is long and life is brief and mortality looms.
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life
life-is-short
margaret-atwood
mortality
the-robber-bride
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Margaret Atwood |
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b07ffd4
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She doesn't think it's a good idea to know the future, because you can hardly ever change it, so why suffer twice?
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foresight
fortune-telling
inevitable
margaret-atwood
prophecy
suffer
the-future
the-robber-bride
unchangeable
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Margaret Atwood |
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5460d8d
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Although he doesn't know it yet, she isn't his real life. But he is hers. This is painful.
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one-sided-love
painful
sad
the-robber-bride
unequal-affections
unrequited-love
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Margaret Atwood |
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10e40fe
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She's the kind of woman who wants what she doesn't have and gets what she wants and then despises what she gets.
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the-robber-bride
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Margaret Atwood |
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77681eb
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So few people understand about anything.
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margaret-atwood
the-robber-bride
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Margaret Atwood |
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1158c36
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She had an idea, but it was the wrong idea. It was hardly even an idea, just a white idea balloon with no writing inside it.
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idea
margaret-atwood
metaphor
the-robber-bride
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Margaret Atwood |
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aa25bdb
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Was she in any way like us? thinks Tony. Or, to put it the other way around: Are we in any way like her?
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margaret-atwood
musing
question
questioning
similarities
the-robber-bride
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Margaret Atwood |
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1ac3789
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If anyone else told her to lower her voice, Roz would know what to do: scream louder.
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loud
margaret-atwood
the-robber-bride
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Margaret Atwood |