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Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.

Margaret Atwood

When any civilization is dust and ashes,” he said, “art is all that’s left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined by them. You have to admit that.
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Art Civilization Dust
There is no fool like an educated fool.
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Educated Emotional Fool People
Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
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Handmaid Need Tale Waste
I’m from the generation that had the boys’ door and the girls’ door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.
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Boy Girl School
It’s evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.
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Color Dust Water
I did … learn an important distinction in graduate school: a speculation about who had syphilis when is gossip if it’s about your friends, a plot element if it’s about a character in a novel, and scholarship if it’s about John Keats.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Character Gossip School
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
Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered.
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Body Embroider Eye Leg
Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.
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Anxiety Book Character
Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Change Handmaid Mean Tale
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
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
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Fiction Planet Space
There’s always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
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Inquiring Mind
The biggest debt is always the government debt; it’s always debt that government has run up on your behalf.
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Debt Government Run
These things you did were like prayers; you did them and you hoped they would save you. And for the most part they did. Or something did; you could tell by the fact that you were still alive.
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Alive Fact Prayer
we lived in the gaps between the stories
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Gap Handmaid Stories Tale

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