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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.

Barbara Kingsolver

Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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Notebook Silence Writing
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
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Life Lucky Trying
People ask without wanting to know.
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Ask Knows People
From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Fallen Tree Trouble
The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Community People
A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
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Lifetime Terror Thinking
I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?
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Pet Python Television
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect Time Writing
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Book Life People Uncertainty
I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
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Mountain Moving Winning
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Important Pieces Stories
I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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Art Failing Political
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
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Daughter Day Mom Mother
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Determine Used World
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
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

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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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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