Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination. . . a way of glimpsing what might be … - Karen Thompson Walker

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I often don't feel like the person I look like.

Karen Thompson Walker

Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination. . . a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

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With a little persuasion, any familiar thing can turn abnormal in the mind. Here's a thought experiment. Consider this brutal bit of magic. A human grows a second human in a space inside her belly; she grows a second heart and a second brain, second eyes and second limbs, a complete set of second body parts as if for use as spares, and then, after almost a year, she expels that second screaming being out of her belly and into the world, alive. Bizarre, isn't it?

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Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.

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It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.

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My goal was just to tell the unlikely story in a way that would feel as convincing as possible.

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In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds.

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When a child has a bad dream and wakes up crying, Dad goes and says, 'Don't be afraid, don't be scared. I'm here. ' The Lord speaks this way, too. . . Usually, Christmas seems like a very noisy feast, but we can use a bit of silence to hear these words of love, closeness and tenderness.

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Alain will do everything in his power to win, he doesn't like getting beaten by anyone and least of all me.

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