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

Margaret Atwood

Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,’ she says. ‘Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always collects in the long run.
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Analysis Benefit Cost Nature Running
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
I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Age Literature Young
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
Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
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Harvard Literature Subject
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
In the end, we’ll all become stories.
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Biography Decade End Stories
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 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
Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.
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Anxiety Book Character
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
Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.
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Change Handmaid Mean Tale
I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
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Inspirational Inspire Motivational
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
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

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