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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.

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
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Criminal Inspirational Memories Mind
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
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
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Balance Expectations Pajamas
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
Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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Feet Feminist Girl
Height isn’t something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.
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Basketball Girl Nice
Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Driving Honk Jesus Love
I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
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Mountain Moving Winning
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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Dream Hope Life Lesson
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
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
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Animal Song Vegetables
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening

From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.

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