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Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?

Barbara Kingsolver

Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn’t it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Civilization Kids Two
Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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Day Diagonal Human Nature
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Knives Memories Novelist
Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Always Downstream Else Someone
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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Notebook Silence Writing
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
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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Cure First Kill
If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Jobs Standing Stink
Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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Fortune How Know Same Wear
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Honesty Needs Truth
Height isn’t something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.
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Basketball Girl Nice
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Empathy Eye Looks
Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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Contagious Done Sleep
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
It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Dream Rabbits Soul

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