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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.

Barbara Kingsolver

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
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
there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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Dog People Political
Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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Pace Sugar Way
It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Everything Freedom Give Great Love
organization is the religion of the single parent.
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Insuperable Organization Parent Single
I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer’s block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don’t. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.
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Block Jobs Waiting
They all attended Hester’s church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
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Church Pyramid Scheme
…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Moving Slides Tasks
From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Fallen Tree Trouble
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Empathy Fiction Stranger
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
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Empathy Literature People
Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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Betrayal Heads Perfect Tails
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Honesty Needs Truth
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain

Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.

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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.

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