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We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

Barbara Kingsolver

For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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Creativity People Writing
This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.
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Heart Mean Moving
If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Jobs Standing Stink
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
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Meaningful Pain Spiritual
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
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
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
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Knows Pretending
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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Father Heart Men
Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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Dog Voice Water
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
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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Cure First Kill
I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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Government Treats Way

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