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I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.

Margaret Atwood

Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence.
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Farewell Flesh Shadow
Maybe that’s what love is, I thought: it’s being pissed off.
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Emotion Love Piss
I’m bad at picking heroes.
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Bad Hero Pick Theory
The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history.
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Art Light Shine
Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
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Century Novelist Once Time Upon
I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.
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Begin Country Paint People
I’m a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don’t like multitasking. When I’m doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.
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Distract Multitasking Whim
Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they’re not rich, or aristocratic, they shuffle around. They’re a group phenomenon, they’re not very fast, they’re quite sickly. So what’s the pleasure of being one?
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Animal Forever Joy
I don’t think of poetry as a ‘rational’ activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me.
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Important Sound Think
If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There’s also the environmental argument for it.
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Animal Environmental Meat
I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.
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Fear Lying Night
Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.
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Anxiety Book Character
I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.
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Air Love Sleep Unnoticed
Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
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Harvard Literature Subject
Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
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God Much Need
we lived in the gaps between the stories
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Gap Handmaid Stories Tale

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