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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.

Barbara Kingsolver

I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Farmers Farms Virginia
You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don’t attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
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Group Needs World
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Anticipation Hope Life
I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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Library Mind Soul
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
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Funny Life Running
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger
The way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.
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Blow Differences Way
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Childhood Transition Unnoticed
It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Get One Thing Over
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
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Alive Different Views
To think is not always to see.
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Always Thinking Visible
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
You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
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Kids Sorry Two
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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Errors People Sin
It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Everything Freedom Give Great Love

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