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Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.

Barbara Kingsolver

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
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Knives Memories Novelist
Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
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Dream Grows Out Right Separate
Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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Creativity People Writing
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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Air Both Grief Real Thing
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
When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.
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Air Hot Ignorance
There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Always Body Fenceline Stories
All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
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Politician Promise War
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
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
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Adults Children People
You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
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Ideas Life Mother No Own
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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Life Out Views Work
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Childhood Transition Unnoticed

Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.

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