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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.

Barbara Kingsolver

Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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Intention Peacefulness Purpose
Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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Empty House Lying
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Knows Pretending
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger
If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Jobs Standing Stink
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
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
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
I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
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Poetry Summer Thinking
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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Fortune How Know Same Wear
We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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Children Littles Magic
Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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Ada Balance Trying
Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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Looks Patience World

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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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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