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The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

Barbara Kingsolver

One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Fun Hopeful Positive
He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.
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Believe Father Mistake
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
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Important Pieces Stories
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
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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Animal Average Vacation
We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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Children Littles Magic
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
Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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Automobile Body Feet Human Two
It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Changed Frightening Love Things
As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer’s long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn’t touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn’t stop.
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Dark Grief Moving
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
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Meaningful Pain Spiritual
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Book Life People Uncertainty
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect Time Writing
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Circumstances Given Turns
People ask without wanting to know.
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Ask Knows People
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
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Community People
Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn’t it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
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Civilization Kids Two
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
Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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Everything Right Sure Travel
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Moving Slides Tasks

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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