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He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.

Barbara Kingsolver

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
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
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
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Prayer Transactions
You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
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Kids Sorry Two
A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Flower Making Love Way
We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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Animal Born Mammals
You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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might Next Splits
What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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might Reality Space
But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.
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Job Mother Running
How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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Foolish Losing Loss
As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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Animal Plant Thinking
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It’s just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
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Animal Love Making Photography
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Criminal Inspirational Memories Mind
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

He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.

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He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.

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