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Terms like that, "Humane Society", are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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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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When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.
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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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There are days when I am envious of my hens:
when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure
as a single daily egg.
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In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
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A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever.
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Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you're good, bad things can still happen. And if you're bad, you can still be lucky.
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The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here.
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I have been afraid of putting air in a tire ever since I saw a tractor tire blow up and throw Newt Hardbine's father over the top of the Standard Oil sign. I'm not lying. He got stuck up there. About nineteen people congregated during the time it took for Norman Strick to walk up to the Courthouse and blow the whistle for the volunteer fire department. They eventually did come with the ladder and haul him down, and he wasn't dead but lost his hearing and in many other ways was never the same afterward. They said he overfilled the tire.
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Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.
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If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business.
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Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.
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A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body and soul.
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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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No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.
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Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It's just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
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I can think of no honorable answer. Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste, while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone dust to quiet the fire of an empty stomach lining? There is nothing about the United States I can really explain to this child of another world.
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Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.
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Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.
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Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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I've seen how you can't learn anything when you're trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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Barbara Kingsolver
Born:
April 8, 1955
(age 69)
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Barbara Kingsolver is an American novelist, essayist and poet. She was raised in rural Kentucky and lived briefly in the Congo in her early childhood.
Known for:
The Poisonwood Bible (1998)
Flight Behavior (2012)
The Bean Trees (1988)
The Lacuna (2009)
Prodigal Summer: A Novel (2000)
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