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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

Barbara Kingsolver

Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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Believe Heart Kids
The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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Believe Deserve Luck
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
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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Alive Different Views
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Circumstances Given Turns
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
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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Notebook Silence Writing
There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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Eggs Life Perfect
You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don’t attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
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Group Needs World
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
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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Funny Life Running
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
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Childhood Transition Unnoticed
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

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