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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.

Barbara Kingsolver

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Different Life Way
To people who think of themselves as God’s houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
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Land Stupid Thinking
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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Cure First Kill
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
We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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Children Littles Magic
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
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
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Book Life People Uncertainty
I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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Decided Dresses Memorable
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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Errors People Sin
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
What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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might Reality Space
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Growing Safe Water
What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Kindness Simple Want
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe
Now, see, that’s why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy…the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn’t agree with you, all that’s left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.
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Guy Idaho Like Neighbor People

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