It’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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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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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
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Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?
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One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
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The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man’s skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people’s back yards.
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It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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