It’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
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Life Lesson
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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Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
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It’s terrible to lose somebody, but it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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