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There are some who’d hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think’s been too lucky.

Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
Now, see, that’s why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy…the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn’t agree with you, all that’s left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.
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Guy Idaho Like Neighbor People
People ask without wanting to know.
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Ask Knows People
A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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Busybodies Hazards Thinking
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.
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Everyday Want Window
It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Get One Thing Over
Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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Ada Balance Trying
Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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Everything Right Sure Travel
It’s terrible to lose somebody, but it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse.
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People Terrible Thinking
They all attended Hester’s church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
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Church Pyramid Scheme
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
I know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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Novelist Rare Person Writing
The thing is, it’s my own fault. I just can’t put up with a person that won’t go out of his way for me. And that’s what a man is. Somebody that won’t go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.
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Fault Men Way
I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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Political Thinking Writing
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Balance Expectations Pajamas

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