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Quote by Margaret Atwood
The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them

The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love. – Margaret Atwood

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Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. – Margaret Atwood

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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. – Margaret Atwood

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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. – Margaret Atwood

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The larger a mans roof, the more snow it collects. – Proverb

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Have you seen but a bright lily grow,
Before rude hands have touched it?
Have you marked but the fall o the snow
Before the soil hath smutched it?…
O so white! O so soft! O so sweet is she! – Ben Johnson

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Cold in the earth – and the deep snow piled above thee,
Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! – Emily Bront

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In the town of The Pas, Manitoba
It snows on the first of Octoba
From then, for six months,
It thaws only once
And never when I am quite soba. – Anon.

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Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that were so fond of it. – George Eliot

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They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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