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Last time I talked to her she didn’t sound like herself. She’s depressed. It’s awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they’re no good.

Barbara Kingsolver

The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Important Pieces Stories
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Get One Thing Over
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
People ask without wanting to know.
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Ask Knows People
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation
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
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
…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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Kindness Momentous Shoulder World
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
organization is the religion of the single parent.
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Insuperable Organization Parent Single
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
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
Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It’s just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
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Animal Love Making Photography
A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
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Lifetime Terror Thinking

Last time I talked to her she didn’t sound like herself. She’s depressed. It’s awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they’re no good.

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Last time I talked to her she didn’t sound like herself. She’s depressed. It’s awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they’re no good.

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