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Margaret Atwood

we lived in the gaps between the stories
MARGARET ATWOOD

Gap Handmaid Stories Tale
When any civilization is dust and ashes,” he said, “art is all that’s left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined by them. You have to admit that.
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Art Civilization Dust
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
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
Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
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Handmaid Need Tale Waste
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
I’m bad at picking heroes.
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Bad Hero Pick Theory
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
And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.
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Hurt Intention Need Someone
Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
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Harvard Literature Subject
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
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
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’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
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

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