Either Tom Lee and partners are victims of fraud or they dropped the ball in terms of due diligence. Today, we don't know which it is. This is not a good time to come to market with a new fund.


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But despite everything, we didn't do badly by one another, we did as well as most. I wish she were h...
MARGARET ATWOOD
But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No ...
MARGARET ATWOOD
Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.
MARGARET ATWOOD
Some of the kimonos took as long as four to five months to make, with all the layers that go into it...
COLLEEN ATWOOD
In real life, a lot of people at that level will have their kimonos made especially for them.
COLLEEN ATWOOD
Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge n...
MARGARET ATWOOD
There's always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
MARGARET ATWOOD
Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tootin...
MARGARET ATWOOD
Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide...
MARGARET ATWOOD
Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window cloud...
MARGARET ATWOOD
Modesty is invisibility...Never forget it. To be seen—to be seen—is to be...penetrated. W...
MARGARET ATWOOD
In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as po...
MARGARET ATWOOD
Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on you...
MARGARET ATWOOD
Sauve qui peut. To survive
we’d all turn thief

and rascal, or so says the fox,
MARGARET ATWOOD
I like the architecture of lingerie.
COLLEEN ATWOOD
On Planet of the Apes, I had a very knowledgeable team who knew good materials, but I had one main s...
COLLEEN ATWOOD
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
MARGARET ATWOOD
But how can you have a sense of wonder if you’re prepared for everything?
MARGARET ATWOOD
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, scho...
MARGARET ATWOOD
A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.
MARGARET ATWOOD
The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that's because I'm doing it wron...
MARGARET ATWOOD
She finds this objectivity of hers, this clarity, almost more depressing than she can bear, not beca...
MARGARET ATWOOD
Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a ...
MARGARET ATWOOD
Many believed what they were told: that the welfare of the entire kingdom depended on their selfless...
MARGARET ATWOOD
She did understand, or at least she understood that she was supposed to understand. She understood, ...
MARGARET ATWOOD
When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be whe...
MARGARET ATWOOD
We do like to have such good opinions of our own motives when we're about to do something harmful, t...
MARGARET ATWOOD
Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide...
MARGARET ATWOOD
I guess that's how they were able to do it, in the way they did, all at once, without anyone knowing...
MARGARET ATWOOD
Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you...
MARGARET ATWOOD
What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams...
MARGARET ATWOOD
There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's somethin...
MARGARET ATWOOD
I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.
MARGARET ATWOOD
How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness...
MARGARET ATWOOD
The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied...
MARGARET ATWOOD
You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly f...
MARGARET ATWOOD
Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you sa...
MARGARET ATWOOD
You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn’t ne...
MARGARET ATWOOD
But in the end, back she comes. There's no use resisting. She goes to him for amnesia, for oblivion....
MARGARET ATWOOD
When you're unhinged, things make their way out of you that should be kept inside, and other things ...
MARGARET ATWOOD
Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert...
MARGARET ATWOOD
It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and set...
MARGARET ATWOOD
The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.
MARGARET ATWOOD
I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.
MARGARET ATWOOD
She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.
MARGARET ATWOOD
Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, t...
MARGARET ATWOOD
Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert...
MARGARET ATWOOD
Home is where the heart is, I thought now, gathering myself together in Betty's Luncheonette. I had ...
MARGARET ATWOOD
Should is a futile word. It's about what didn't happen. It belongs in a parallel universe. It...
MARGARET ATWOOD
What is it the I'll want from you? Not love: that would be too much to ask. Not forgiveness, which i...
MARGARET ATWOOD