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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.

Barbara Kingsolver

Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
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
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable
The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Adults Children People
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Criminal Inspirational Memories Mind
I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they’re feeling because that’s how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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Eye Hands Heart
Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Alone Being Life Writing
I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
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Mountain Moving Winning
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
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
If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Jobs Standing Stink
This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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Believe Country States Thinking United
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect Time Writing
The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business…I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Business Know Obsession Small Suppose Town

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