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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.

Barbara Kingsolver

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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Heart Moving Pain
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
What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Kindness Simple Want
When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.
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Air Hot Ignorance
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
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
The substance of grief is not imaginary. It’s as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
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Air Both Grief Real Thing
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
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
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Determine Used World
the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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Errors Limited Resources Spiritual
My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Nightmares Nothing Stuck Worst
From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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Kitchen Memories Men
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
Everything truly important is washable.
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Housework Important

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.

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