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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.

Barbara Kingsolver

There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect Time Writing
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Anticipation Hope Life
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Balance Expectations Pajamas
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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Grows Willing Wonder
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Important Pieces Stories
You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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might Next Splits
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Charity Needs Want
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger
This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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Believe Country States Thinking United
Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Cancer Depression Sadness
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Growing Safe Water
It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Everything Freedom Give Great Love
Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
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Borders Country Trying
I’ve about decided that’s the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you’re a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
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Feelings People Sweaters

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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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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