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In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.

Barbara Kingsolver

… Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, ‘so far from everything?’ When I hear this question over the phone, I’m usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
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Garden Running Thinking
What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Kindness Simple Want
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
People ask without wanting to know.
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Ask Knows People
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
To think is not always to see.
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Always Thinking Visible
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
…prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.
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Heart Summer Wings
Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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Cost Greed Money
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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Fault Men Way
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
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Life Lucky Trying
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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Fountain People Thinking Want
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Balance Expectations Pajamas

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