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Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man’s skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people’s back yards.

Barbara Kingsolver

It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Get One Thing Over
The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Community People
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable
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 Purpose
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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Ada Balance Trying
If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Jobs Standing Stink
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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Grief Past Thinking
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect Time Writing
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
How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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Foolish Losing Loss
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Prayer Transactions
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
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Animal Skills Vegetables
Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.
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Cities Firsts Groups
A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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Busybodies Hazards Thinking

Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man’s skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people’s back yards.

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Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man’s skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people’s back yards.

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