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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
Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
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God Much Need
Maybe that’s what love is, I thought: it’s being pissed off.
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Emotion Love Piss
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
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
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Fiction Planet Space
There’s always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
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Inquiring Mind
I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.
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Age Literature Young
I walk away from him. It’s enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It’s like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will.
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Able Away People Walk
Canada was built on dead beavers.
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Beaver Built Country People
Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.
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Anxiety Book Character
Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
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Harvard Literature Subject
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.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Change Handmaid Mean Tale
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
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
There is no fool like an educated fool.
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Educated Emotional Fool People

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