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The talkers are rising above the thinkers.

Barbara Kingsolver

Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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Automobile Body Feet Human Two
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
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Dream Grows Out Right Separate
What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Kindness Simple Want
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
the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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Errors Limited Resources Spiritual
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
… Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, ‘so far from everything?’ When I hear this question over the phone, I’m usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
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Garden Running Thinking
Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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Dog Voice Water
It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Homecoming Memories Mindfulness
Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Always Downstream Else Someone
People ask without wanting to know.
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Ask Knows People
We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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Believe Literature Should
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger

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