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If it’s important, your heart remembers.

Barbara Kingsolver

Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Cancer Depression Sadness
It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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Enough People Wells
Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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Cost Greed Money
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
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Doe Numbers Revenge
Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
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Borders Country Trying
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger
As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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Animal Plant Thinking
I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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Decided Dresses Memorable
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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Life Thing World Wrong
…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Moving Slides Tasks
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Book Life People Uncertainty
Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
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Change Forgiveness Moving
We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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Animal Born Mammals
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
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Kings Mind Poison

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