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Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.

Barbara Kingsolver

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
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn’t it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
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Civilization Kids Two
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
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Funny Life Running
It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Dream Rabbits Soul
You think you’re the foreigner here, and I’m the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I’m a foreigner, too.
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People President Thinking
A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Flower Making Love Way
No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
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Before Human Unnoticed World
A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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Busybodies Hazards Thinking
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Homecoming Memories Mindfulness
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
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Found Rocks Swimming
You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
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Kids Sorry Two
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 concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it “intently political.” I’m just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.
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Character Grief Writing

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