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If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.

Barbara Kingsolver

The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Jobs Standing Stink
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
To think is not always to see.
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Always Thinking Visible
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Prayer Transactions
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Earth Men Sound
You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.
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Love People Running Trust
Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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Believe Deserve Luck
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
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Empathy Literature People
Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
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Borders Country Trying
I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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Art Failing Political
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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Airplane Staring Steps
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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Animal Average Vacation
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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Life Thing World Wrong
Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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Doorways Starting Thinking

If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.

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