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

Margaret Atwood

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.
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Animal Environmental Meat
Better never means better for everyone… It always means worse, for some.
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Change Handmaid Mean Tale
I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.
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Begin Country Paint People
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
Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.
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Anxiety Book Character
I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.
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Fear Lying Night
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
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
The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.
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Bears Close Kind Way
There’s always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
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Inquiring Mind
Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
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God Much Need
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
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
Canada was built on dead beavers.
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Beaver Built Country People
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
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
How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation’s mighty seed – For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.
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Greed Lust Men
I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.
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Inspirational Inspire Motivational
I’m bad at picking heroes.
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Bad Hero Pick Theory
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
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.
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Important Sound Think
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
Hunger is a powerful reorganizer of the conscience.
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Conscience Hunger Powerful
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
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
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.
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Shelves Silent Use
I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.
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Age Literature Young

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

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