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A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.

Barbara Kingsolver

When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.
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Air Hot Ignorance
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Honesty Needs Truth
Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
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Dream Grows Out Right Separate
He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Life Need Rub Soul
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
Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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Doorways Starting Thinking
High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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Fashion Past Salad
Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
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Change Forgiveness Moving
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Balance Injury Success
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
Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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Day Diagonal Human Nature
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Criminal Inspirational Memories Mind
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Knows Pretending
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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Notebook Silence Writing
Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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Dirt might Today
You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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Crazy People Self

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