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If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.

Barbara Kingsolver

…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Moving Slides Tasks
I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
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Mountain Moving Winning
It’s terrible to lose somebody, but it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse.
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People Terrible Thinking
Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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Contagious Done Sleep
In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
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Long Passion Running
…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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Kindness Momentous Shoulder World
Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Driving Honk Jesus Love
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Family Inspiring Mothers Day
Everything truly important is washable.
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Housework Important
Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Cancer Depression Sadness
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Knives Memories Novelist
To think is not always to see.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Always Thinking Visible
Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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Creativity People Writing
You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.
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Love People Running Trust
This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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Believe Country States Thinking United
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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Life Thing World Wrong

If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.

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