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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

You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
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Ideas Life Mother No Own
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
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Meaningful Pain Spiritual
To think is not always to see.
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Always Thinking Visible
You don’t think you’ll live past it and you don’t really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that’s still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
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Grief Past Thinking
This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.
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Dark Mouth Scent
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable
The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Community People
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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Everything Right Sure Travel
There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Always Body Fenceline Stories
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once
Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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Empty House Lying
There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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Eggs Life Perfect
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger
Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It’s more like conversation, raising new questions and inspiring you to answer them for yourself.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Believe Moving Writing
I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
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Poetry Summer Thinking

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