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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

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
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
It’s evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.
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Color Dust Water
It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.
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Feel Invisible Made
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
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
Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
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God Much Need
The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.
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Bears Close Kind Way
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 don’t think of poetry as a ‘rational’ activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phrasing of a poem are very important to me.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Important Sound Think
These things you did were like prayers; you did them and you hoped they would save you. And for the most part they did. Or something did; you could tell by the fact that you were still alive.
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Alive Fact Prayer
I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.
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Age Literature Young
Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
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Handmaid Need Tale Waste
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
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
I’m bad at picking heroes.
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Bad Hero Pick Theory

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