Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.
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She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It’s just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
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Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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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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I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
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If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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