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Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

Margaret Atwood

I don’t think of poetry as a ‘rational’ activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Important Sound Think
It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.
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Feel Invisible Made
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
Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
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God Much Need
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
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’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
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
I’m from the generation that had the boys’ door and the girls’ door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.
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Boy Girl School
we lived in the gaps between the stories
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Gap Handmaid Stories Tale
A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of the life-threatening and dignity-destroying precipice you were walking along, you would switch into actuarial sciences immediately.
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Dignity Ignorance Poetry
I’m a novelist, and idle speculation is what novelists do. How odd to spend one’s life trying to pretend that non-existent people are real: though no odder, I suppose, than what government bureaucrats do, which is trying to pretend that real people are non-existent.
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Government People Real
I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.
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Age Literature Young
Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
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Handmaid Need Tale Waste
In the end, we’ll all become stories.
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Biography Decade End Stories

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

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