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

Barbara Kingsolver

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
Everything truly important is washable.
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Housework Important
But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.
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Job Mother Running
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
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Earth Men Sound
There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
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Believe Grief Track
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
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
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Charity Needs Want
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
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Ethics Waiting Work Writing
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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Errors People Sin
A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
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Lifetime Terror Thinking
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
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Honesty Needs Truth

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