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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Barbara Kingsolver

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
the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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Errors Limited Resources Spiritual
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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Fountain People Thinking Want
…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Moving Slides Tasks
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
Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.
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Cities Firsts Groups
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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Life Out Views Work
Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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Believe Deserve Luck
It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Changed Frightening Love Things
It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Everything Freedom Give Great Love
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
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Knives Memories Novelist
You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
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Ideas Life Mother No Own
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Criminal Inspirational Memories Mind
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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Book Reading Writing
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect Time Writing

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