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The biggest debt is always the government debt; it’s always debt that government has run up on your behalf.

Margaret Atwood

There’s always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
MARGARET ATWOOD

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
There is no fool like an educated fool.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Educated Emotional Fool People
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
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
Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.
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Change Handmaid Mean Tale
In the end, we’ll all become stories.
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Biography Decade End Stories
Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
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God Much Need
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
I’m not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don’t know what to say. I know the unspoken rules of boys, but with girls I sense that I am always on the verge of some unforeseen, calamitous blunder.
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Awkward Boys Girl
Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.
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Anxiety Book Character
I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.
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Begin Country Paint People
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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Cards Credit Individual
Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
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Harvard Literature Subject
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’m bad at picking heroes.
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Bad Hero Pick Theory

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