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I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer’s block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don’t. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.

Barbara Kingsolver

How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Bird Book Want
Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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Dirt might Today
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.
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Blow Blue Sky
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Knows Pretending
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
A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Flower Making Love Way
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
Everything truly important is washable.
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Housework Important
The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Important Knows Persons
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
Many of us who aren’t farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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Past Real Secret
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Balance Injury Success
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once
I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Pet Python Television

I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer’s block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don’t. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.

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I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer’s block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don’t. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.

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