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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.

Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business…I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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Business Know Obsession Small Suppose Town
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
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Important Knows Persons
It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Changed Frightening Love Things
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Found Rocks Swimming
Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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Environmental Feelings Ideas
It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Get One Thing Over
It’s terrible to lose somebody, but it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse.
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People Terrible Thinking
A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Flower Making Love Way
He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Life Need Rub Soul
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
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
A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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Doe Dog Thinking
People ask without wanting to know.
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Ask Knows People

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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