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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

My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Nightmares Nothing Stuck Worst
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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Cure First Kill
… 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
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Honesty Needs Truth
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Adults Children People
It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Dream Rabbits Soul
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.
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Long Passion Running
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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Political Thinking Writing
Many of us who aren’t farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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Past Real Secret
…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Moving Slides Tasks
A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Lifetime Terror Thinking
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.
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Kindness Rocks Thinking
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
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

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