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Margaret Atwood

"When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that."

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Donna Grant

"Every time the long-forgotten people of the past are remembered, they are born again!"

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Donna Grant

"If knew more about Alzheimer's and the Brain, your mind will be blow and most cases you will confused..."

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Donna Grant

"To forget is to blithely toss aside the hard lessons that were hard won by others before us, thereby needlessly dooming us to endure the hard lessons that are likely to be forgotten by those who will follow us. And it is altogether reasonable that in order to avoid this repetitive trouncing, God graciously granted us memories."

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Donna Grant

"I remember your profile in darkness outlined by stars ..."

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Donna Grant

"The most evocative life memories, which produced a synesthesia of emotions, consist of a host of small pleasures intertwined with the homespun stitches of love, affection, kindness, humility, and appreciation of nature."

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Donna Grant

"Create memories, forget misery."

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Donna Grant

"Precipitate as weather, she appeared from somewhere, then evaporated, leaving only memory."

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Donna Grant

"I shouldn't have taken a vow of silence, I told myself. What did I want? Nothing much. Just a memorial. But what is a memorial, when you come right down to it, but a commemoration of wounds endured? Endured, and resented. Without memory, there can be no revenge."

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Donna Grant

"[In] everyday life, it is very rare that we are confronted with new facts about events of long ago. Our memories are almost never challenged. They can, instead, be frozen in place, no matter how flawed they are, or become a work in continual artistic revision."

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Donna Grant

"It is said that nothing in our lives is ever lost, that nothing can prevent its having been. That is why, so very often the weight of the past lies ineluctably upon the present. But that is why it is so real in memory, so wholly itself, so far beyond replacement."

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Margaret Atwood
"All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard."

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Margaret Atwood
"I shouldn't have taken a vow of silence, I told myself. What did I want? Nothing much. Just a memorial. But what is a memorial, when you come right down to it, but a commemoration of wounds endured? Endured, and resented. Without memory, there can be no revenge."

Memory

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Margaret Atwood
"Is there no end to his diguises of benevolence?"

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Margaret Atwood
"There is never only one, of anyone."

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Margaret Atwood
"For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control. I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You go out there and wait for a wave, and when it comes it takes you somewhere and you don't know where it'll go."

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Margaret Atwood
"Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along."

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Margaret Atwood
"We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?"

Hope

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Margaret Atwood
"Here the children have a custom. After the celebration of evil they take those vacant heads that shone once with such anguish and glee and throw them over the bridge, watching the smash, orange, as they hit below, We were standing underneath when you told it. People do that with themselves when they are finished, light scooped out. He landed here, you said, marking it with your foot.You wouldn't do it that way, empty, you wouldn't wait, you would jump with the light still in you."

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Margaret Atwood
"A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant."

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Margaret Atwood
"This form of love is like the painof childbirth: so intenseit's hard to remember afterwards."

Love

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