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Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.

Margaret Atwood

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
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 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
There is no fool like an educated fool.
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Educated Emotional Fool People
In the end, we’ll all become stories.
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Biography Decade End Stories
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 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
Maybe that’s what love is, I thought: it’s being pissed off.
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Emotion Love Piss
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
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
It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.
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Feel Invisible Made
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
Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.
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Conscience Hunger Powerful
Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.
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Anxiety Book Character
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

Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.

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