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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.

Barbara Kingsolver

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
It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Homecoming Memories Mindfulness
Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.
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Doors Insomnia Light
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
If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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Art Bread Real
It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.
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Thinking Wise Writing
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Found Rocks Swimming
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Balance Injury Success
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
Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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Environmental Feelings Ideas
You don’t think you’ll live past it and you don’t really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that’s still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
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Grief Past Thinking
Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It’s the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
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Change Forgiveness Moving
What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Kindness Simple Want
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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Heart Moving Pain

Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.

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