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I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.

Margaret Atwood

I did … learn an important distinction in graduate school: a speculation about who had syphilis when is gossip if it’s about your friends, a plot element if it’s about a character in a novel, and scholarship if it’s about John Keats.
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Character Gossip School
Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.
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Conscience Hunger Powerful
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
I’m from the generation that had the boys’ door and the girls’ door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.
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Boy Girl School
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
Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
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Harvard Literature Subject
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.
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Distract Multitasking Whim
It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.
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Feel Invisible Made
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
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
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
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
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
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

I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.

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