Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
MARGARET ATWOODIn the end, we’ll all become stories.
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In the end, we’ll all become stories.
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The way love feels is always only approximate. I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.
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The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.
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I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.
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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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How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation’s mighty seed – For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.
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A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of the life-threatening and dignity-destroying precipice you were walking along, you would switch into actuarial sciences immediately.
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I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.
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And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.
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I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.
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It’s evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.
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It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.
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Confronted by too much emptiness … the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?
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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
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Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.
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You can pretty much trace when the big individual indebtedness kicked in, and it was when the credit card became generally available.
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Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.
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Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
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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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Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
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I’m a novelist, and idle speculation is what novelists do. How odd to spend one’s life trying to pretend that non-existent people are real: though no odder, I suppose, than what government bureaucrats do, which is trying to pretend that real people are non-existent.
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We are silent, considering shortfalls. There’s not much time left, for us to become what we once intended. Jon had potential, but it’s not a word that can be used comfortably any more. Potential has a shelf-life.
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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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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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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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I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
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