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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same

Barbara Kingsolver

School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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Education Order School
It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Dream Rabbits Soul
Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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Pace Sugar Way
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
If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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Art Bread Real
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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Fountain People Thinking Want
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
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable
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
As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer’s long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn’t touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn’t stop.
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Dark Grief Moving
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Farmers Farms Virginia
The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Community People
Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
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Borders Country Trying
You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
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Kids Sorry Two
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Circumstances Given Turns
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger

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