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…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.

Barbara Kingsolver

A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
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Lifetime Terror Thinking
Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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Contagious Done Sleep
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
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Fun Hopeful Positive
Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Driving Honk Jesus Love
High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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Fashion Past Salad
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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Cure First Kill
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Balance Expectations Pajamas
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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Artist Novelist Writing
What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Kindness Simple Want
But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.
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Job Mother Running
Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
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Kings Mind Poison
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
Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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Everything Right Sure Travel
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe

…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.

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