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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.

Barbara Kingsolver

The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Community People
It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Changed Frightening Love Things
Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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Automobile Body Feet Human Two
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman’s coal buttons.
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Black Eye Geometric Running Shape White
You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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Crazy People Self
We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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Children Littles Magic
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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Errors People Sin
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Moving Slides Tasks
I know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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Novelist Rare Person Writing
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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Tact Toes Walks
I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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Decided Dresses Memorable
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe
As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer’s long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn’t touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn’t stop.
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Dark Grief Moving

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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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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