Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what … - Barbara Kingsolver

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It took a while for her to figure out she could run but when she did she was long gone, Long gone.

Barbara Kingsolver

Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It's more like conversation, raising new questions and moving you to answer them for yourself.

Believe, Like, Moving, See, Writing

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Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.

Across, Borders, Country, Feels, Like, Trying

It's what you do that makes your soul.

Dream, Rabbits, Soul

the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners

Conspicuous, Consumption, Errors, Limited Resources, Spiritual, Widely

Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?

Adults, Children, Medicate, People

When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the simple acts of faith like planting a garden that helped see us through another spring, another summer. And I inhale some kind of promise to protect my kids' hopes and good intentions we began with in this country. Freedom of speech, the protection of diversity - these are the most important ingredients of American civil life and my own survival. If I ever took them for granted, I don't know.

Country, Intentions, Like, Motivational, Protection, Summer

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

(Mariners) have written one of its most brilliant chapters. They have delivered the goods when and where needed in every theater of operations and across every ocean in the biggest, the most difficult and dangerous job ever undertaken. As time goes on, there will be greater public understanding of our merchant's fleet record during this war.

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Georges Laraque

I haven't played a single game all year. This is bullshit!

Bullshit, Game, Games, Played, Year, Years

William Shakespeare

There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.

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Henry David Thoreau

A gun will give you the body, not the bird

Bird, Body, Giving, Gun

Keith Urban