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All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
Kentucky
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To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that is made, and whomever it is made for.
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I have always loved a window, especially an open one.
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We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.
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We are alive within mystery, by miracle... We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say.
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I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water. My tasks lie in their places where I left them, asleep like cattle... Then what I am afraid of comes. I live for a while in its sight. What I fear in it leaves it, And the fear of it leaves me. It sings, and I hear its song.
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To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.
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It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.
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To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.
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I’ve been thinking about that question about what city people can do. The main thing is to realize that country people can’t invent a better agriculture by ourselves. Industrial agriculture wasn’t invented by us, and we can’t uninvent it. We’ll need some help with that.
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The life we want is not merely the one we have chosen and made. It is the one we must be choosing and making
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Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable.
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...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.
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Love changes, and in change is true.
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The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around.
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Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.
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The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.
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Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold itself from death. What it gives up it takes back.
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