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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.

Barbara Kingsolver

From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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Kitchen Memories Men
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation
Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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Intention Peacefulness Purpose
If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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Art Bread Real
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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Notebook Silence Writing
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Balance Injury Success
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
Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It’s just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
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Animal Love Making Photography
A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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Book Jumping Magic
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect Time Writing
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Doe Numbers Revenge
Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man’s skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people’s back yards.
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Father Heart Men
You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
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Ideas Life Mother No Own
It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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Enough People Wells
You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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Crazy People Self
There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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Home Moon Stars

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