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  1. Wallace Stegner _ Where the Bluebird Sings to

    It is not an unusual life curve for Westerners - to live i n and be shaped by the bigness, sparseness, space clarity & hopefulness of the West, to go away for study and enlargement and the perspective that distance and dissatisfaction can give, and then to return to what pleases the sight and enlists the loyalty and demands the commitment.
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  2. Cecelia Ahern _ The Book of Tomorrow

    Our minds do unusual things sometimes, Tamara. When we're looking for things it takes it upon itself to go down its own route. All we can do is follow
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  3. Steve Martin _ The Pleasure of My Company

    If you saw her in these moments, you might think she was collecting her thoughts in order to go forward. But I see it another way: Her mind is being overwhelmed by two processes that must simultaneously proceed at full steam. One is to deal with and live in the present world. The other is to re-experience and mourn something that happened long ago. It is as though her lightness pulls her toward heaven, but the extra gravity around her keeps her earthbound.
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  4. Nick Hornby _ A Long Way Down

    There isn't so much to be afraid of, out there. I can remember thinking it was funny to find that out, on the last night of my life; I'd spent the rest of it being afraid of everything.
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  5. James Clavell _ Shōgun

    Always remember, child... that to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral you down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one onf the things that discipline - training - is about.
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  6. Alice Munro _ Too Much Happiness

    It was comparable to getting sick from bad ventilation
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  7. Krista Tippett _ Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into

    More riveting to me in the end than the politics of Berlin was the vast social experiment its division had become... it was possible to have freedom and plenty in the West and craft an empty life; it was possible to "have nothing" in the East and create a life of intimacy and dignity and beauty.
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  8. Margaret Atwood _ The Tent

    I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. If you'd wanted the narrative line you should have asked earlier, when I still knew everything and was more than willing to tell. That was before I discovered the virtues of scissors, the virtues of matches.
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  9. Orson Scott Card _ Shadow of the Hegemon

    Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.
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  10. Barbara Kingsolver _ The Poisonwood Bible

    But Pascal quickly forgave me, and it's a good thing, since friends of my own age and gender were not available, the girls of Kilanga all being too busy hauling around firewood, water, or babies. It did cross my mind to wonder why Pascal had the freedom to play and roam that his sisters didn't. While the little boys ran around pretending to shoot each other and fall dead in the road, it appeared that little girls were running the country.
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  11. Barbara Kingsolver _ The Poisonwood Bible

    Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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  12. Philip K. Dick _ A Scanner Darkly

    It's easy to win. Anybody can win.
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