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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.

Barbara Kingsolver

I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent.
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Hands Rain Strong
Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man’s skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people’s back yards.
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Father Heart Men
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Balance Injury Success
When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.
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Air Hot Ignorance
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Important Pieces Stories
Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
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Ethics Waiting Work Writing
I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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Library Mind Soul
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Knives Memories Novelist
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business…I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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Business Know Obsession Small Suppose Town
Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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Cure First Kill
High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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Fashion Past Salad

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