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All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.

Barbara Kingsolver

I’m widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I’m not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.
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New People Something Writing
I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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Inspirational Learning Trying
Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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Grows Willing Wonder
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 first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.
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Appreciation Selfish Wise
High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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Fashion Past Salad
the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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Errors Limited Resources Spiritual
He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Life Need Rub Soul
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Community People
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
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Animal Skills Vegetables
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
To people who think of themselves as God’s houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
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Land Stupid Thinking
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

All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.

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