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Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

Margaret Atwood

Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. Good for trade, we thrive on bones; without them there’d be no stories.
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Good Light Stick Stories
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
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Fiction Planet Space
Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they’re not rich, or aristocratic, they shuffle around. They’re a group phenomenon, they’re not very fast, they’re quite sickly. So what’s the pleasure of being one?
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Animal Forever Joy
Maybe that’s what love is, I thought: it’s being pissed off.
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Emotion Love Piss
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
It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.
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Feel Invisible Made
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
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
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
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
Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
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Harvard Literature Subject
In the end, we’ll all become stories.
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Biography Decade End Stories
It’s evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.
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Color Dust Water
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

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

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