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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.

Barbara Kingsolver

Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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Dream Inspiring Running
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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Political Thinking Writing
Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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Day Diagonal Human Nature
Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
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Dream Grows Out Right Separate
Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
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Animal Song Vegetables
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
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
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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Errors People Sin
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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Book Reading Writing
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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Errors Limited Resources Spiritual
It’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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Else One Thing Somewhere
The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Important Knows Persons
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Family Inspiring Mothers Day

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