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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.

Barbara Kingsolver

…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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Kindness Momentous Shoulder World
You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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might Next Splits
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe
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
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
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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Life Out Views Work
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
What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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might Reality Space
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
there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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Dog People Political
It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Homecoming Memories Mindfulness
It’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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Else One Thing Somewhere
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Important Pieces Stories
Everything truly important is washable.
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Housework Important
There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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Eggs Life Perfect
It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Everything Freedom Give Great Love

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