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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.

Margaret Atwood

How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation’s mighty seed – For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.
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Greed Lust Men
There’s always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
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Inquiring Mind
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
we lived in the gaps between the stories
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Gap Handmaid Stories Tale
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
Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
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God Much Need
Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
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Handmaid Need Tale Waste
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
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
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
Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.
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Change Handmaid Mean Tale
It’s evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.
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Color Dust Water
The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you’re opposed to it. But when you’re writing a novel, you don’t want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that.
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Fight Racism Write
Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.
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Anxiety Book Character
I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
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Inspirational Inspire Motivational

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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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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