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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

For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.
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Everyday Want Window
I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
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Poetry Summer Thinking
The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Important Knows Persons
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
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Knives Memories Novelist
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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Life Out Views Work
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
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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Political Thinking Writing
It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.
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Thinking Wise Writing
There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Always Body Fenceline Stories
Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.
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Alone Being Life Writing
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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Book Reading Writing
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Balance Injury Success
A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
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Lifetime Terror Thinking

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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