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It’s what you do that makes your soul.

Barbara Kingsolver

I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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Government Treats Way
School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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Education Order School
A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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Doe Dog 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
Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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Environmental Feelings Ideas
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
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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Cure First Kill
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
Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down.” – Mrs. Brown
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Needs Pull Shepherds Ups
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Adults Children People
I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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Library Mind Soul
organization is the religion of the single parent.
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Insuperable Organization Parent Single
Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Alone Being Life Writing
I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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Political Thinking Writing

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