"He needed to exist only in the present, without guilt, without expectation."

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Margaret Atwood

#Expectations Quotes #Guilt Quotes #Needed Quotes

“Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.”
“Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly - on a historical scale, that is - we can expect technology to break the upper bound on intelligence that has held for the last few tens of thousands of years.”
“I went to a high school reunion a couple years ago and realized that the kids who were the most unusual in high school are the ones who are the most interesting now and the ones who were popular are dull and boring.”
“When we get through with the Jews in America, they'll think the treatment they received in Germany was nothing.”
“I remember the first date I ever went out on. It was in high school. Her name was Marguerite. She was kind of a heavyset girl... I took her out on one date. We went out for dinner and a movie and a dinner.”
“Embrace yourself, create a plan of action and of course, ponder the impact of your thoughts.”
“A man gets on a train with his little boy, and gives the conductor only one ticket. 'How old's your kid?' the conductor says, and the father says, 'He's four years old.' 'He looks at least twelve to me,' says the conductor. And the father says, 'Can I help it if he worries?”
“It's hard sometimes to capture magic when it comes to live records.”

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