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You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.

Barbara Kingsolver

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
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Funny Life Running
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Knives Memories Novelist
The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Important Knows Persons
Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
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Borders Country Trying
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Honesty Needs Truth
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Criminal Inspirational Memories Mind
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Anticipation Hope Life
There are some who’d hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think’s been too lucky.
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Kindness Rocks Thinking
It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Homecoming Memories Mindfulness
In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
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Long Passion Running
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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Book Reading Writing
I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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Art Failing Political
Now, see, that’s why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy…the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn’t agree with you, all that’s left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.
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Guy Idaho Like Neighbor People
A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Flower Making Love Way
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

You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.

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