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Margaret Atwood Quotes: Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.
         

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.


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