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It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Barbara Kingsolver

You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
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Kids Sorry Two
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Book Life People Uncertainty
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
I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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Government Treats Way
I didn’t study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction in the scientific way. I love invention, obviously; I love creation of character. But I do feel very rooted in the real world, even in the way that I create characters.
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Real School Writing
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
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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Book Reading Writing
Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
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Ethics Waiting Work Writing
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Fallen Tree Trouble
As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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Animal Plant Thinking
There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
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Believe Grief Track
I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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Library Mind Soul
Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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Looks Patience World
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Criminal Inspirational Memories Mind

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