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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.

Barbara Kingsolver

It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Get One Thing Over
We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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Children Littles Magic
Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Always Downstream Else Someone
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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Doorways Starting Thinking
A sound-bite culture can’t discuss science very well. Exactly what we’re losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can’t be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.
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Causes Evening Sound
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Prayer Transactions
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
To people who think of themselves as God’s houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
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Land Stupid Thinking
You don’t think you’ll live past it and you don’t really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that’s still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
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Grief Past Thinking
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Balance Expectations Pajamas
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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Home Moon Stars
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Knives Memories Novelist
Everything truly important is washable.
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Housework Important

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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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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