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

Barbara Kingsolver

Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Knives Memories Novelist
When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.
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Everyday Want Window
In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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Careers Jobs Stress
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
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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Day Diagonal Human Nature
A sound-bite culture can’t discuss science very well. Exactly what we’re losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can’t be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.
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Causes Evening Sound
Many of us who aren’t farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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Past Real Secret
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.
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Blow Blue Sky
It’s terrible to lose somebody, but it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse.
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People Terrible Thinking
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Earth Men Sound
No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
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Before Human Unnoticed World
I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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Government Treats Way
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Important Pieces Stories
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Charity Needs Want

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

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