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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

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 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
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
It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.
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Feel Invisible Made
Maybe that’s what love is, I thought: it’s being pissed off.
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Emotion Love Piss
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
Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Change Handmaid Mean Tale
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
Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
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Handmaid Need Tale Waste
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
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
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
It’s evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.
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Color Dust Water
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
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Fiction Planet Space
You can pretty much trace when the big individual indebtedness kicked in, and it was when the credit card became generally available.
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Cards Credit Individual
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 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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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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