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It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.

Barbara Kingsolver

Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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Automobile Body Feet Human Two
If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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Tact Toes Walks
Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.
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Book Doubt Writing
If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Jobs Standing Stink
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
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger
From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Fallen Tree Trouble
Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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Environmental Feelings Ideas
A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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Book Jumping Magic
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
… Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, ‘so far from everything?’ When I hear this question over the phone, I’m usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
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Garden Running Thinking
Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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Dream Inspiring Running
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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Dream Hope Life Lesson
He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Life Need Rub Soul
I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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Book Expectations People
I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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Art Failing Political

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