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If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.

Barbara Kingsolver

There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Cancer Depression Sadness
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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Dream Inspiring Running
There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Always Body Fenceline Stories
If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Jobs Standing Stink
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
there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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Dog People Political
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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Empty House Lying
Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down.” – Mrs. Brown
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Needs Pull Shepherds Ups
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
Now, see, that’s why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy…the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn’t agree with you, all that’s left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.
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Guy Idaho Like Neighbor People
Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
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Borders Country Trying
We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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Believe Literature Should
School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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Education Order School
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger

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