Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
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You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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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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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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Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
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There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man’s skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people’s back yards.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I just do it.
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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.
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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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