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

Barbara Kingsolver

The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Important Knows Persons
I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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Inspirational Learning Trying
The way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Blow Differences Way
Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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Grows Willing Wonder
People ask without wanting to know.
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Ask Knows People
Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
I’m widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I’m not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.
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New People Something Writing
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
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Meaningful Pain Spiritual
A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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Book Jumping Magic
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
I’ve about decided that’s the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you’re a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
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Feelings People Sweaters
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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Fountain People Thinking Want
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
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
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
School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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Education Order School

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