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Barbara Kingsolver

"She never says gracias because life is made of survival not grace, she says, and servants are paid to bring what they're asked."

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"She never says gracias because life is made of survival not grace, she says, and servants are paid to bring what they're asked."

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"The rent is a little higher herebut so far I've been able to pay itand that's a miracle toolike still maybe being sanewhile thinking of guns and sidewalksand old ladies in libraries."

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"There is no enemy that respect and love will not conquer. The moral authority for survival comes from respect."

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Amber Hurdle

"Fish are small, but do not drown in the sea. Ships are big, but sink in the ocean."

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"There is time for a fight and a time for a flight, knowing the right time to do one or the other can mean the difference between life and death."

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"Adaptation is the key to survival."

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Amber Hurdle

"Never let your pride get in the way of you asking for help when you are in desperate need of something. We have all been helped before in one way or the other. Life is about surviving. So you must do whatever that's morally justified you possibly can to survive."

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"Trap yourself inside your own brain, switch off the light, block all the escape routes, then turn your back on everything you know to be reality and try and survive there. Try. Living. Nowhere."

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"Endurance is more important than truth because without endurance there can't be any truth. And truth means going to the end like you mean it. That way, death itself comes up short when it grabs."

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"The fittest person survives! The fighting man succeeds! He who Fights to Fit, will Survive to Succeed!"

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Amber Hurdle

"Skinny guys fight till they're burger."

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"She watched the dark highway and entertained me with her vegetable-soup song, except that now there were people mixed in with the beans and potatoes: Dwayne Ray, Mattie, Esperanza, Lou Ann and all the rest. And me. I was the main ingredient."
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"Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain."
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"Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is."
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"If chained is where you have been, your ams will always bear marks of the shackles. What you have to lose is your story, your own slant. You'll look at the scars on your arms and see mere ugliness, or you'll take great care to look away from them and see nothing. Either way, you have no words for the story of where you came from."
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"A journalist's job is to collect information," Ovid said to Pete. "Nope," Pete said. "That's what we do. It's not what they do." Dellarobia was unready to be pushed out of the conversation just like that. "Then what do you think the news people drive their Jeeps all the way out here for?" "To shore up the prevailing view of their audience and sponsors." "Pete takes a dim view of his fellow humans," Ovid said. "He prefers insects. Dellarobia turned her chair halfway around to face Pete, scraping noisily against the cement floor. "You're saying people only tune in to news they know they're going to agree with?" "Bingo," said Pete."
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"Well, yeah," Dovey said. "That's America. We watch shows about rich people's houses and their designer dresses and we drool. It's patriotic."
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"The changes we dread most may contain our salvation."
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"Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side. Betrayal is a friend I have known a long time, a two-faced goddess looking forward and back with a clear, earnest suspicion of good fortune."
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"God doesn't need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves."
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"This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don't consider it rejected. Consider that you've addressed it 'to the editor who can appreciate my work' and it has simply come back stamped 'Not at this address'. Just keep looking for the right address."
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