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Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

Barbara Kingsolver

the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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Errors Limited Resources Spiritual
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
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Knives Memories Novelist
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Prayer Transactions
The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business…I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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Business Know Obsession Small Suppose Town
Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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Believe Heart Kids
It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Dream Rabbits Soul
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
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
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
A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
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Lifetime Terror Thinking
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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Heart Moving Pain
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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Appreciation Selfish Wise
My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Nightmares Nothing Stuck Worst
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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Animal Average Vacation
When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.
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Everyday Want Window

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