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

Barbara Kingsolver

One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Fun Hopeful Positive
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
No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
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Before Human Unnoticed World
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?
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Pet Python Television
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
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
It’s terrible to lose somebody, but it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse.
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People Terrible Thinking
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Kindness Simple Want
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 considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
It’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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Else One Thing Somewhere
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Family Inspiring Mothers Day
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger
There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Believe Grief Track
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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Errors People Sin

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

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