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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.

Barbara Kingsolver

Last time I talked to her she didn’t sound like herself. She’s depressed. It’s awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they’re no good.
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People Running Thinking
Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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Believe Deserve Luck
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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Heart Moving Pain
Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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Pace Sugar Way
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Knows Pretending
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Anticipation Hope Life
Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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Contagious Done Sleep
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Life Need Rub Soul
Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn’t it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
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Civilization Kids Two
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Life Out Views Work
You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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might Next Splits
A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
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Lifetime Terror Thinking
The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Important Knows Persons
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once

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