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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.

Barbara Kingsolver

From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Fallen Tree Trouble
When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.
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Everyday Want Window
Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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Contagious Done Sleep
Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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Creativity People Writing
It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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Enough People Wells
The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Important Knows Persons
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Balance Expectations Pajamas
Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Always Downstream Else Someone
Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Believe Deserve Luck
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Balance Injury Success
There are some who’d hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think’s been too lucky.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Kindness Rocks Thinking
Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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Cost Greed Money
They all attended Hester’s church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
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Church Pyramid Scheme
In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Long Passion Running
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Circumstances Given Turns
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Perfect Time Writing

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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