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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

For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
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Joy Men Rather Submission
It’s a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can’t begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
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Discipline Funny Things Writing
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
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Meaningful Pain Spiritual
Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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Feet Feminist Girl
Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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Automobile Body Feet Human Two
I know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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Novelist Rare Person Writing
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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Grows Willing Wonder
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Childhood Transition Unnoticed
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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Life Thing World Wrong
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
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
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Found Rocks Swimming
Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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Empty House Lying
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain

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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