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Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.

Barbara Kingsolver

Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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Children Littles Magic
From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Fallen Tree Trouble
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
This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.
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Dark Mouth Scent
Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man’s skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people’s back yards.
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Father Heart Men
From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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Kitchen Memories Men
To think is not always to see.
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Always Thinking Visible
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Honesty Needs Truth
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Knows Pretending
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Doe Numbers Revenge
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Circumstances Given Turns
One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
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Fun Hopeful Positive
Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.
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Boys Eden Girl
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Charity Needs Want

Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.

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Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.

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