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We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces on the edges of print.

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces on the edges of print.
– Margaret Atwood

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  2. I write as if I’ve lived a lot of things I haven’t lived. – Margaret Atwood
  3. Some folks are forced to the edges by their difference. (…) But ’tis at the edges that they find their power. – Hannah Kent
  4. The large print giveth and the small print taketh away. – Tom Waits
  5. The big print giveth and the fine print taketh away. – Fulton J Sheen
  6. We are the things we don’t remember,the blank spaces, the forgotten words. – Cecilia Ruiz
  7. The big blank spaces in the map are all being filled in, and there’s no room for romance anywhere. – Arthur Conan Doyle
  8. He had always felt that he lived on the edges of life, Constantine realized, watching everyone else living, sometimes helping them do it. – Mary Balogh
  9. Nothing reminds one of how shitty inequality is more often than the fact that there are companies who make and people who use 1-ply toilet papers. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  10. But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. – Margaret Atwood
  11. But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. – Margaret Atwood
  12. Why do we want other people to like us, even if we don’t really care about them all that much? – Margaret Atwood
  13. People change, though, especially after they are dead. – Margaret Atwood
  14. Religious people of any serious kind made her nervous: they were like men in raincoats who might or might not be flashers. – Margaret Atwood
  15. I’m not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president. – Hillary Rodham Clinton
  16. A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. – HL Mencken
  17. She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day. – William Makepeace Thackeray
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  19. It’s Ms. Hilda’s magic drawer! That’s where Ms. Hilda finds everything we need. Crayons, papers, glitters, candies, everything! – Tamar Bobokhidze
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  21. Ballot papers do not define leaders. Leadership is defined by conviction, vision, passion and inspiration. – Israelmore Ayivor
  22. No poet can stay alive solely in his/her poetry etched in papers, it is the reader audience in whom the poets breath forever……. – SWANSH
  23. An extrovert looks at a stack of books and sees a stack of papers, while an introvert looks at the same stack and sees a soothing source of escape. – Eric Samuel Timm
  24. Papers ,Always Welcome you with an Emty space to full it ,they wont judge or Mind… – Khaireddine Safwane
  25. Twenty years have intervened; for ten of them I lived and fought for Dejah Thoris and her people, and for ten I have lived upon her memory. – Edgar Rice Burroughs
  26. Be careful of broken people. Their sharp edges may cut you. – nickiesha reid
  27. Familiarity has a way of filing the sharp edges off our feelings for other people. You’ll see. – Scott Lynch
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  29. Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock. – Margaret Atwood
  30. They will not let you have peace, they don’t want you to have anything they don’t have themselves. – Margaret Atwood
  31. But there’s something missing in them, even the nice ones. It’s like they’re permanently absent-minded, like that can’t quite remember who they are. – Margaret Atwood
  32. … Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest. – Margaret Atwood
  33. I didn’t much like it, this grudge-holding against the past. – Margaret Atwood
  34. 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 – Margaret Atwood
  35. It is shocking how many crimes the Bible contains. The Governor’s wife should cut them all out and paste them into her scrapbook. – Margaret Atwood
  36. More and more I feel like a letter-”deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one. – Margaret Atwood
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  38. I follow suit, said the lion, vacating his coat of arms and movie logos; and the eagle said, Get me off this flag. – Margaret Atwood
  39. …yes, in the obscured sky a moon does float, newly, a wishing moon, a sliver of ancient rock, a goddess, a wink. – Margaret Atwood
  40. Lose your temper and you lose the fight. – Margaret Atwood

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