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#85031
10/28/2002 4:58 PM
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I'm trying to write an op/ed piece for the local paper and I want to use that quote (I may be getting it slightly
wrong) - something about, "Cruelty is a failure of imagination."
Does anyone know the exact quote, and who said it? I've googled cruelty + imagination + quote and got a
quote site, but though it had good stuff on "imagination" it had nothing on "cruelty" - hence didn't have the
quote I seek. And I started with my Oxford UP Dic of Quotes - no luck there either.
Help help! Please Help!
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#85032
10/28/2002 5:58 PM
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Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.--Margaret Atwood
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#85033
10/28/2002 6:33 PM
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Thanks tsuwm - that is also good - but it still ain't quite right. The quote I'm thinking of actually defines "cruelty" as "a failure of [the] imagination."
I've looked and looked and still no luck....Think I will just say, "A wise person" and then paraphrase!
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#85034
10/28/2002 6:41 PM
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mg, see my post in your other post about cross-posting. 
formerly known as etaoin...
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#85035
10/28/2002 6:49 PM
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we have a scoop: oppression ain't cruel!
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#85036
10/29/2002 1:05 AM
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Fantastic quote from Atwood, nunc.
Tell you what, MG - if it ain't your quote, I'm blown away. How can that be beaten?
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#85037
10/30/2002 9:13 PM
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Hey Shona - 'Tis a wonderful quote, 'tis, but the thrust of it is more to do with oppression - so it didn't fit in with what I was composing (which had to do with killing/beating people - only two ways to oppress people, and there are so many more). I wanted to address cruelty specifically, so a quote having to do with oppression was a bit too general. Urgh - am not explaining myself very well.
Anyway: my apologies for cross-threading/posting, and also for not seeming enthusiastic enough about what tsuwm found for me, which I liked very much indeed.
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