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A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.

Barbara Kingsolver

You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
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Ideas Life Mother No Own
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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Doorways Starting Thinking
The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Community People
A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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Busybodies Hazards Thinking
You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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Crazy People Self
To people who think of themselves as God’s houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
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Land Stupid Thinking
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
In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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Careers Jobs Stress
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
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
…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Moving Slides Tasks
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Charity Needs Want
To think is not always to see.
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Always Thinking Visible
The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Important Knows Persons
But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.
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Job Mother Running

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