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> [“You can never really escape. It goes with you, wherever you go. Somehow, the prairie dust gets in your blood, and it flows through your veins until it becomes a part of you. The vast stretches of empty fields, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-s-baber/you-can-never-really-escape-it-goes-with-you-wherever-you-go-somehow/)

[P.S. Baber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-s-baber/)

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## More by P.S. Baber

> [“You can never really escape. It goes with you, wherever you go. Somehow, the prairie dust gets in your blood, and it flows through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-s-baber/you-can-never-really-escape-it-goes-with-you-wherever-you-go-somehow/)

[P.S. Baber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-s-baber/)

> [“The young of the town, preoccupied with their own germinating angst, which each possessed in varying degree (though few were ever fully aware of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-s-baber/the-young-of-the-town-preoccupied-with-their-own-germinating-angst/)

[P.S. Baber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-s-baber/)

> [“Heresy kicks ass.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-s-baber/heresy-kicks-ass/)

[P.S. Baber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-s-baber/)

> [“I choose to believe God had a more direct involvement in the creation of my heart and consciousness than in the creation of any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-s-baber/i-choose-to-believe-god-had-a-more-direct-involvement-in-the-creation/)

[P.S. Baber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-s-baber/)

> [“See, if you analyze stuff long enough, you’ll eventually break ideas down to the quantum level where nothing makes sense and there’s no longer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-s-baber/see-if-you-analyze-stuff-long-enough-you-ll-eventually-break-ideas/)

[P.S. Baber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-s-baber/)

> [“Kansas afternoons in late summer are peculiar and wondrous things. Often they are pregnant, if not over-ripe, with a pensive and latent energy that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-s-baber/kansas-afternoons-in-late-summer-are-peculiar-and-wondrous-things/)

[P.S. Baber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-s-baber/)

> [“Good fiction doesn’t claim to mirror reality at all. It indicts reality by providing a paradigm of shape and order and justice—the way we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-s-baber/good-fiction-doesn-t-claim-to-mirror-reality-at-all-it-indicts/)

[P.S. Baber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-s-baber/)

> [“Living is the opposite of poetry. Poetry is the recollection of living, or, more often than not, the lament of having not lived. Or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-s-baber/living-is-the-opposite-of-poetry-poetry-is-the-recollection-of-living/)

[P.S. Baber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-s-baber/)

> [“From the sky, everything looked fake. The buildings were doll houses. The cars were Matchbox racers. People scuttled about, but they weren’t really people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-s-baber/from-the-sky-everything-looked-fake-the-buildings-were-doll-houses/)

[P.S. Baber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-s-baber/)

> [“There are four kinds of people in the world, Ms. Harper. Those who build walls. Those who protect walls. Those who breach walls. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-s-baber/there-are-four-kinds-of-people-in-the-world-ms-harper-those-who-build/)

[P.S. Baber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-s-baber/)

> [“The stage is a magic circle where only the most real things happen, a neutral territory outside the jurisdiction of Fate where stars may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-s-baber/the-stage-is-a-magic-circle-where-only-the-most-real-things-happen-a/)

[P.S. Baber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-s-baber/)

> [“Analysis is the art of creation through destruction.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/p-s-baber/analysis-is-the-art-of-creation-through-destruction/)

[P.S. Baber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/p-s-baber/)

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