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Margaret Atwood

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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Children Fall Summer
Don’t misunderstand me. I am not scoffing at goodness, which is far more difficult to explain than evil, and far more complicated. But sometimes it’s hard to put up with.
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Complicated Evil Sometimes
There is no fool like an educated fool.
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Educated Emotional Fool 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
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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Island Loneliness Water
I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.
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Age Literature Young
The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.
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Bears Close Kind Way
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
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
Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. Good for trade, we thrive on bones; without them there’d be no stories.
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Good Light Stick Stories
Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
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Handmaid Need Tale Waste
I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren’t very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.
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Grow Survival Wood
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
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Fiction Planet Space
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
we lived in the gaps between the stories
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we lived in the gaps between the stories

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