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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

If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
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
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Earth Men Sound
As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer’s long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn’t touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn’t stop.
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Dark Grief Moving
Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Always Downstream Else Someone
Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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Creativity People Writing
People ask without wanting to know.
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Ask Knows People
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
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
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Kindness Simple Want
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 do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Circumstances Given Turns
The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman’s coal buttons.
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Black Eye Geometric Running Shape White
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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Cure First Kill

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