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

Barbara Kingsolver

To think is not always to see.
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Always Thinking Visible
The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking
If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Jobs Standing Stink
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
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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Dream Hope Life Lesson
I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
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Poetry Summer Thinking
The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Important Knows Persons
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
I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they’re feeling because that’s how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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Eye Hands Heart
Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Cancer Depression Sadness
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
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Joy Men Rather Submission
When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.
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Everyday Want Window
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Childhood Transition Unnoticed

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

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