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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.

Barbara Kingsolver

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
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Found Rocks Swimming
Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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Feet Feminist Girl
To think is not always to see.
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Always Thinking Visible
I know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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Novelist Rare Person Writing
No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
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Before Human Unnoticed World
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
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Earth Men Sound
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Jobs Standing Stink
I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
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Poetry Summer Thinking
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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Life Out Views Work
Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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Cost Greed Money
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
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder

People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.

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