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…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.

Barbara Kingsolver

Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down.” – Mrs. Brown
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Needs Pull Shepherds Ups
Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
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Kings Mind Poison
there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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Dog People Political
Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Always Downstream Else Someone
What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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might Reality Space
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
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Empathy Literature People
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Balance Expectations Pajamas
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
Everything truly important is washable.
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Housework Important
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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Notebook Silence 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.
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Business Know Obsession Small Suppose Town
What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Kindness Simple Want
…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Moving Slides Tasks
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Book Life People Uncertainty
Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It’s more like conversation, raising new questions and inspiring you to answer them for yourself.
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Believe Moving Writing
I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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Library Mind Soul

…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.

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…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.

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