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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.

Barbara Kingsolver

Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Doe Numbers Revenge
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Kindness Simple Want
You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
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Kids Sorry Two
Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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Fortune How Know Same Wear
… Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, ‘so far from everything?’ When I hear this question over the phone, I’m usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
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Garden Running Thinking
It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Dream Rabbits Soul
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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People Running Thinking
A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
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Lifetime Terror Thinking
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
It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Everything Freedom Give Great Love
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
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Daughter Day Mom Mother
Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.
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Cities Firsts Groups
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Childhood Transition Unnoticed

I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.

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