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Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.

Margaret Atwood

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
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
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
I’m a novelist, and idle speculation is what novelists do. How odd to spend one’s life trying to pretend that non-existent people are real: though no odder, I suppose, than what government bureaucrats do, which is trying to pretend that real people are non-existent.
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Government People Real
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
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’s always something to occupy the inquiring mind.
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Inquiring Mind
I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.
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Age Literature Young
There is no fool like an educated fool.
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Educated Emotional Fool People
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
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Fiction Planet Space
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
It’s evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.
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Color Dust Water
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
Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.
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Anxiety Book Character
It made him feel invisible—not that he wanted to feel anything else.
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Feel Invisible Made
I’m bad at picking heroes.
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Bad Hero Pick Theory

Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.

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