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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.

Barbara Kingsolver

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
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
When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.
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Everyday Want Window
Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It’s more like conversation, raising new questions and inspiring you to answer them for yourself.
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Believe Moving Writing
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Balance Injury Success
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Moving Slides Tasks
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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Dream Hope Life Lesson
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
It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Everything Freedom Give Great Love
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once
Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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Contagious Done Sleep
If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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Art Bread Real
All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
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Politician Promise War
Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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Automobile Body Feet Human Two
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger

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