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There is no fool like an educated fool.

Margaret Atwood

I’m not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don’t know what to say. I know the unspoken rules of boys, but with girls I sense that I am always on the verge of some unforeseen, calamitous blunder.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Awkward Boys Girl
There’s always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
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Inquiring Mind
It’s evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.
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Color Dust Water
There is no fool like an educated fool.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Educated Emotional Fool People
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
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
Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.
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Conscience Hunger Powerful
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.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Distract Multitasking Whim
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
The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.
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Bears Close Kind Way
If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There’s also the environmental argument for it.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Animal Environmental Meat
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.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Body Embroider Eye Leg
It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.
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Feel Invisible Made
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
We are silent, considering shortfalls. There’s not much time left, for us to become what we once intended. Jon had potential, but it’s not a word that can be used comfortably any more. Potential has a shelf-life.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Shelves Silent Use
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

There is no fool like an educated fool.

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