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The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.

Barbara Kingsolver

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
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Alive Different Views
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
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
Everything truly important is washable.
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Housework Important
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
…prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.
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Heart Summer Wings
I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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Inspirational Learning Trying
I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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Political Thinking 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
Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn’t it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
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Civilization Kids Two
They all attended Hester’s church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
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Church Pyramid Scheme
Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
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Dream Grows Out Right Separate
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Earth Men Sound
Many of us who aren’t farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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Past Real Secret
Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
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Ethics Waiting Work Writing
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

The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.

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