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Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.

Barbara Kingsolver

It’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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Else One Thing Somewhere
All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
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Politician Promise War
Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Balance Expectations Pajamas
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
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
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once
Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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Contagious Done Sleep
From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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Kitchen Memories Men
There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Always Body Fenceline Stories
The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Knives Memories Novelist
organization is the religion of the single parent.
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Insuperable Organization Parent Single
It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Get One Thing Over
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
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Life Lucky Trying
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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Enough People Wells

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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