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A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.

Barbara Kingsolver

Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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Pace Sugar Way
Last time I talked to her she didn’t sound like herself. She’s depressed. It’s awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they’re no good.
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People Running Thinking
Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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Cost Greed Money
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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Automobile Body Feet Human Two
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger
A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
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Lifetime Terror Thinking
It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.
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Thinking Wise Writing
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 don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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Book Expectations People
It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Changed Frightening Love Things
If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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Tact Toes Walks
It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Get One Thing Over
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
What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
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Book Fall Rocks

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