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There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.

Barbara Kingsolver

It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Growing Safe Water
The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Community People
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
It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Get One Thing Over
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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Heart Moving Pain
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Kindness Simple Want
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
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Funny Life Running
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Balance Expectations Pajamas
Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
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Ethics Waiting Work Writing
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
It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Homecoming Memories Mindfulness
I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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Art Failing Political
It’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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Else One Thing Somewhere
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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Errors People Sin

There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.

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There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.

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