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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.

Barbara Kingsolver

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
Last time I talked to her she didn’t sound like herself. She’s depressed. It’s awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they’re no good.
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People Running Thinking
From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Fallen Tree Trouble
School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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Education Order School
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
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
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Knives Memories Novelist
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Earth Men Sound
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
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
Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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Everything Right Sure Travel
It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Dream Rabbits Soul
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Adults Children People
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.
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Air Hot Ignorance
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger

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