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Maybe that’s what love is, I thought: it’s being pissed off.

Margaret Atwood

The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you’re opposed to it. But when you’re writing a novel, you don’t want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Fight Racism Write
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
Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
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Handmaid Need Tale Waste
Canada was built on dead beavers.
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Beaver Built Country People
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.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Fear Lying Night
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
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Fiction Planet Space
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
we lived in the gaps between the stories
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Gap Handmaid Stories Tale
I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.
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Age Literature Young
Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
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God Much Need
It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.
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Feel Invisible Made
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.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Dignity Ignorance Poetry
Maybe that’s what love is, I thought: it’s being pissed off.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Emotion Love Piss
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
There’s always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
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Inquiring Mind
Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered.
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Body Embroider Eye Leg

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