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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

Barbara Kingsolver

Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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Dirt might Today
It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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Enough People Wells
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Determine Used World
Everything truly important is washable.
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Housework Important
How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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Bird Book Want
Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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Day Diagonal Human Nature
Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.
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Blow Blue Sky
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
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Meaningful Pain Spiritual
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
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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Artist Novelist Writing
A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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Book Jumping Magic
The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Important Knows Persons
A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Flower Making Love Way
We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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Animal Born Mammals
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

Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

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