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Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.

Barbara Kingsolver

There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Cancer Depression Sadness
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Charity Needs Want
If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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Art Bread Real
A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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Doe Dog Thinking
Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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Environmental Feelings Ideas
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Balance Injury Success
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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Life Out Views Work
I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it “intently political.” I’m just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.
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Character Grief 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
It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Changed Frightening Love Things
In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
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Long Passion Running
Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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Looks Patience World
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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Fountain People Thinking Want

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