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How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation’s mighty seed – For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.

Margaret Atwood

Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. Good for trade, we thrive on bones; without them there’d be no stories.
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Good Light Stick Stories
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
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
Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
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Handmaid Need Tale Waste
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
It’s evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.
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Color Dust Water
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
Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.
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Anxiety Book Character
I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
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Inspirational Inspire Motivational
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 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
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
Although from you I far must roam, do not be broken hearted. We two, who in the souls are one, are never truly parted.
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Broken Roam Soul Two
we lived in the gaps between the stories
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Gap Handmaid Stories Tale
Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
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Harvard Literature Subject

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