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

Margaret Atwood

Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence.
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Farewell Flesh Shadow
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
Immortality,’ said Crake, ‘ is a concept. If you take ‘mortality’ as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then ‘immortality’ is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you’ll be.
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Absence Baby Immortality
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
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.
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Fight Racism Write
Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
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Handmaid Need Tale Waste
It’s evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.
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Color Dust Water
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 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
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
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 was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.
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Age Literature Young
There is no fool like an educated fool.
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Educated Emotional Fool People
Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.
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Conscience Hunger Powerful
I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
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Inspirational Inspire Motivational
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
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Fiction Planet Space

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