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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

She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Found Rocks Swimming
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Earth Men Sound
The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman’s coal buttons.
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Black Eye Geometric Running Shape White
I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?
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Pet Python Television
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Knows Pretending
Height isn’t something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.
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Basketball Girl Nice
You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don’t attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
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Group Needs World
My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Nightmares Nothing Stuck Worst
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
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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Enough People Wells
The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking
We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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Children Littles Magic
How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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Bird Book Want
It’s a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can’t begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
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Discipline Funny Things Writing
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks

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