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We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.

Barbara Kingsolver

Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Earth Men Sound
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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Politician Promise War
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
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Funny Life Running
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
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Alive Different Views
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Determine Used World
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
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Knows Pretending
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Knives Memories Novelist
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
Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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Everything Right Sure Travel
You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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might Next Splits
Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.
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Blow Blue Sky
If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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Tact Toes Walks
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

We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.

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