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Time cures you first, and then it kills you.

Barbara Kingsolver

But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.
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Job Mother Running
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation
My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Nightmares Nothing Stuck Worst
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
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Alive Different Views
He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.
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Believe Father Mistake
To think is not always to see.
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Always Thinking Visible
If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Jobs Standing Stink
Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it’s going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.
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Real Thinking Writing
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
Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.
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Blow Blue Sky
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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Life Thing World Wrong
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Criminal Inspirational Memories Mind
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
There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Always Body Fenceline Stories
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
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks

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