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Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.

Barbara Kingsolver

The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
Everything truly important is washable.
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Housework Important
Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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Betrayal Heads Perfect Tails
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
If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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Art Bread Real
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Earth Men Sound
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Growing Safe Water
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
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.
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Blow Differences Way
Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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Contagious Done Sleep
I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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Art Failing Political
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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Notebook Silence Writing
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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Errors People Sin
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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Book Reading Writing
there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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Dog People Political

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