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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!

Barbara Kingsolver

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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Pet Python Television
But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.
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Job Mother Running
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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Artist Novelist Writing
My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Nightmares Nothing Stuck Worst
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
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Poetry Summer Thinking
Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Driving Honk Jesus Love
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Doe Numbers Revenge
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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Meaningful Pain Spiritual
It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Changed Frightening Love Things
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Determine Used World
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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Animal Love Making Photography
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
People ask without wanting to know.
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Ask Knows People

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