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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?

Margaret Atwood

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

Greed Lust Men
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
It’s evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.
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Color Dust Water
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
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
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Fiction Planet Space
we lived in the gaps between the stories
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Gap Handmaid Stories Tale
Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
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God Much Need
Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.
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Anxiety Book Character
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
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
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
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
There is no fool like an educated fool.
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Educated Emotional Fool People
I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.
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Age Literature Young
I’m bad at picking heroes.
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Bad Hero Pick Theory

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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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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