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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.

Margaret Atwood

we lived in the gaps between the stories
MARGARET ATWOOD

Gap Handmaid Stories Tale
Immortality,’ said Crake, ‘ is a concept. If you take ‘mortality’ as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then ‘immortality’ is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you’ll be.
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Absence Baby Immortality
It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.
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Feel Invisible Made
Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.
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Conscience Hunger Powerful
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
There’s always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
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Inquiring Mind
Although from you I far must roam, do not be broken hearted. We two, who in the souls are one, are never truly parted.
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Broken Roam Soul Two
Canada was built on dead beavers.
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Beaver Built Country People
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.
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Character Gossip School
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
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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Greed Lust Men
Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
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God Much Need
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
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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Dignity Ignorance Poetry
I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
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Inspirational Inspire Motivational
I’m bad at picking heroes.
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Bad Hero Pick Theory

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