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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

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 inspiring you to answer them for yourself.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Believe Moving Writing
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Anticipation Hope Life
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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Life Thing World Wrong
You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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Crazy People Self
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.
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Borders Country Trying
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
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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Book Doubt Writing
This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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Believe Country States Thinking United
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Important Pieces Stories
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
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Daughter Day Mom Mother
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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Book Jumping Magic
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Charity Needs Want
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once
You don’t think you’ll live past it and you don’t really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that’s still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
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Grief Past Thinking
That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent.
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Hands Rain Strong

Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

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