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You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.

Barbara Kingsolver

Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
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Long Passion Running
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
Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
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Change Forgiveness Moving
The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman’s coal buttons.
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Black Eye Geometric Running Shape White
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect Time Writing
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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Grows Willing Wonder
I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
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Mountain Moving Winning
From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Fallen Tree Trouble
You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.
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Love People Running Trust
If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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Tact Toes Walks
Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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Dream Inspiring Running
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables

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