He needs to go rub his soul against life.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

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He needs to go rub his soul against life.

Barbara Kingsolver

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You don’t think you’ll live past it and you don’t really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that’s still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

You don’t think you’ll live past it and you don’t really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that’s still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
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The substance of grief is not imaginary. It’s as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.

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The substance of grief is not imaginary. It’s as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
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Both Real Thing
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.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

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 Running
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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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.

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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Sugar Way
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.

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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Threatening
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.

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’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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Else One Thing Somewhere
That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent.
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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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Kitchen
Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I just do it.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I just do it.
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Airplane Staring Steps
The thing is, it’s my own fault. I just can’t put up with a person that won’t go out of his way for me. And that’s what a man is. Somebody that won’t go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.

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The thing is, it’s my own fault. I just can’t put up with a person that won’t go out of his way for me. And that’s what a man is. Somebody that won’t go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.
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Fault Way
My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.

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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Nightmares Nothing Stuck
One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
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Hopeful
Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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Intention Peacefulness
We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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Mammals

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