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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.

Barbara Kingsolver

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
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Alive Different Views
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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Empathy Eye Looks
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
I didn’t study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction in the scientific way. I love invention, obviously; I love creation of character. But I do feel very rooted in the real world, even in the way that I create characters.
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Real School Writing
Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
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Change Forgiveness Moving
A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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Doe Dog Thinking
Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Always Downstream Else Someone
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
I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
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Poetry Summer Thinking
If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Jobs Standing Stink
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Charity Needs Want
To think is not always to see.
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Always Thinking Visible
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Family Inspiring Mothers Day
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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Day Diagonal Human Nature

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