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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

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
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Anticipation Hope Life
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
It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Dream Rabbits Soul
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable
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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Home Moon Stars
You don’t think you’ll live past it and you don’t really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that’s still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
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Grief Past Thinking
organization is the religion of the single parent.
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Insuperable Organization Parent Single
You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don’t attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
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Group Needs World
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
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
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Jobs Standing Stink
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Found Rocks Swimming

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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