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Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.

Barbara Kingsolver

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
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Kindness Simple Want
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
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
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
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Knives Memories Novelist
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Charity Needs Want
Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Cancer Depression Sadness
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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Dream Hope Life Lesson
A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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Busybodies Hazards Thinking
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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Cure First Kill
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Important Pieces Stories
Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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Empty House Lying
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

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