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It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.

Barbara Kingsolver

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
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
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Changed Frightening Love Things
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
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
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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Betrayal Heads Perfect Tails
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once
A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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Busybodies Hazards Thinking
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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Life Thing World Wrong
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation
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
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Balance Expectations Pajamas
We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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Animal Born Mammals
A sound-bite culture can’t discuss science very well. Exactly what we’re losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can’t be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.
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Causes Evening Sound

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