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" Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. "
Barbara Kingsolver
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" Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up. "
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" 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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" Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them. "
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" What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all. "
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" When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie. "
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" I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that. "
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