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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

Barbara Kingsolver

The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Important Knows Persons
What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Kindness Simple Want
Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
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Ethics Waiting Work Writing
The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking
You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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might Next Splits
Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
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Dream Grows Out Right Separate
Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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Everything Right Sure Travel
The way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Blow Differences Way
Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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Ada Balance Trying
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Adults Children People
If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Jobs Standing Stink
The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Community People
If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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Tact Toes Walks
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Childhood Transition Unnoticed
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Education Order School

Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

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