Without the protection of surliness and levity, all childre… - Margaret Atwood

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Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past — the past of others, loaded onto their shoulders. Selfishness is their saving grace.

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Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born 18 November 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet, and literary critic.

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