Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.

Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale

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Topic

Inner strength Resilience

Author

Margaret Atwood

Source

The Handmaid's Tale

Medium

Novel

Genre

Dystopian fiction

Language

Greek

Time

1985 1980s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

Canada

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Citation

Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale. McClelland and Stewart/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1985, ch. 29.

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To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.

John Updike

Self-Consciousness

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Topic
War

Author

John Updike
Source
Self-Consciousness
Genre
Autobiography and memoir
Language
English
Time
1989 1980s 20th century
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Citation

Updike, John. Self-Consciousness: Memoirs. Alfred A. Knopf, 1989, ch. 4.

Another quote originally in Greek

There are many wonderful things, and nothing is more wonderful than man.

Sophocles

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Topic
Nature of man Man and animals

Author

Sophocles
Source
Antigone
Medium
Play
Genre
Tragic play Greek theater
Language
Greek
Time
441 BC 440s 5th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Sophocles. Ἀντιγόνη [Antigone]. c. 441 BC, Festival of Dionysus, Athens, Greece.

Current Citation

Sophocles. "Antigone." The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone, translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. Mariner Books, 2002.