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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.

Margaret Atwood

Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Conscience Hunger Powerful
Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
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Handmaid Need Tale Waste
Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
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God Much Need
Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.
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Anxiety Book Character
The way love feels is always only approximate. I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.
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Ignorant Shame Way
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
The biggest debt is always the government debt; it’s always debt that government has run up on your behalf.
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Debt Government Run
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
Maybe that’s what love is, I thought: it’s being pissed off.
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Emotion Love Piss
Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Change Handmaid Mean Tale
I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.
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Fear Lying Night
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
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
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
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
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Fiction Planet Space
There’s always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
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Inquiring Mind

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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