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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

If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
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
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
organization is the religion of the single parent.
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Insuperable Organization Parent Single
Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Cancer Depression Sadness
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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Animal Average Vacation
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
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Empathy Literature People
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Prayer Transactions
I know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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Novelist Rare Person Writing
I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer’s block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don’t. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.
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Block Jobs Waiting
Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
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Joy Men Rather Submission
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Doe Numbers Revenge
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
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Daughter Day Mom Mother
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Earth Men 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
I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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Political Thinking Writing

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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