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Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.

Barbara Kingsolver

The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Important Knows Persons
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
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
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Circumstances Given Turns
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
Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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Feet Feminist Girl
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Book Life People Uncertainty
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Jobs Standing Stink
… Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, ‘so far from everything?’ When I hear this question over the phone, I’m usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
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Garden Running Thinking
You think you’re the foreigner here, and I’m the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I’m a foreigner, too.
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People President Thinking
Everything truly important is washable.
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Housework Important
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Knows Pretending
Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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Empty House Lying
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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Life Out Views Work

Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.

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