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The Robber Bride

The Robber Bride
Margaret Atwood

The Robber Bride is a Margaret Atwood novel first published by McClelland and Stewart in 1993.

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“Just because there's a silence it doesn't mean that nothing is going on.”

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“How old do you have to get before wisdom descends like a plastic bag over your head and you learn to keep your big mouth shut? Maybe never. Maybe you get more frivolous with age.”

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“War is what happens when language fails.”

Margaret Atwood book The Robber Bride

The Robber Bride (1993), Ch. 6

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“Genius is an infinite capacity for causing pain.”

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“Where to start is the problem, because nothing begins when it begins and nothing's over when it's over, and everything needs a preface: a preface, a postscript, a chart of simultaneous events.”

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