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Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.

Barbara Kingsolver

The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.
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Appreciation Selfish Wise
Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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Feet Feminist Girl
It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Dream Rabbits Soul
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Balance Injury Success
I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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Book Expectations People
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
As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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Animal Plant Thinking
Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
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Joy Men Rather Submission
It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.
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Thinking Wise Writing
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger
But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.
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Job Mother Running
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
When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.
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Air Hot Ignorance
Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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Fortune How Know Same Wear
The way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.
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Blow Differences Way
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

Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.

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