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The way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.

Barbara Kingsolver

The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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Life Thing World Wrong
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Earth Men Sound
There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
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Believe Grief Track
He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Life Need Rub Soul
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Honesty Needs Truth
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
The substance of grief is not imaginary. It’s as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
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Air Both Grief Real Thing
Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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Automobile Body Feet Human Two
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Prayer Transactions
How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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Bird Book Want
This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.
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Dark Mouth Scent
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I just do it.
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Airplane Staring Steps
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
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

The way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.

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The way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.

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