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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

The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history.
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Art Light Shine
Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
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Harvard Literature Subject
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
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Fiction Planet Space
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
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
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
In the end, we’ll all become stories.
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Biography Decade End Stories
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
I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
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Inspirational Inspire Motivational
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
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
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
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
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 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
Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.
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Anxiety Book Character

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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