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Barbara Kingsolver

Height isn’t something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.
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Basketball Girl Nice
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
The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.
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Appreciation Selfish Wise
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
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
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Doe Numbers Revenge
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Circumstances Given Turns
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
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
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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Pace Sugar Way
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
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
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
It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Dream Rabbits Soul

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