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These things you did were like prayers; you did them and you hoped they would save you. And for the most part they did. Or something did; you could tell by the fact that you were still alive.

Margaret Atwood

It’s evening, one of those gray water-color washes, like liquid dust.
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Color Dust Water
Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
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Handmaid Need Tale Waste
Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
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Fiction Planet Space
When any civilization is dust and ashes,” he said, “art is all that’s left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined by them. You have to admit that.
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Art Civilization Dust
I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.
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Air Love Sleep Unnoticed
The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.
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Bears Close Kind Way
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
Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.
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God Much Need
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
Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.
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Anxiety Book Character
I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.
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Children Fall Summer
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
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
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
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 lived in the gaps between the stories
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Gap Handmaid Stories Tale

These things you did were like prayers; you did them and you hoped they would save you. And for the most part they did. Or something did; you could tell by the fact that you were still alive.

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These things you did were like prayers; you did them and you hoped they would save you. And for the most part they did. Or something did; you could tell by the fact that you were still alive.

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