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The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.

Margaret Atwood

Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
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Century Novelist Once Time Upon
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
Maybe that’s what love is, I thought: it’s being pissed off.
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Emotion Love Piss
There is no fool like an educated fool.
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Educated Emotional Fool People
I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.
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Age Literature Young
I’m bad at picking heroes.
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Bad Hero Pick Theory
we lived in the gaps between the stories
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Gap Handmaid Stories Tale
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
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
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’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
Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
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God Much Need
Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.
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Conscience Hunger Powerful
When any civilization is dust and ashes,” he said, “art is all that’s left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined by them. You have to admit that.
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Art Civilization Dust
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
Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
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Harvard Literature Subject

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