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Barbara Kingsolver

For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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Believe Country States Thinking United
Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Driving Honk Jesus Love
I’ve about decided that’s the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you’re a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
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Feelings People Sweaters
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
organization is the religion of the single parent.
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Insuperable Organization Parent Single
It’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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Else One Thing Somewhere
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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Life Out Views Work
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Honesty Needs Truth
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
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Funny Life Running
From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Fallen Tree Trouble
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Book Life People Uncertainty
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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Empathy Eye Looks
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
A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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Busybodies Hazards Thinking

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