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What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.

Barbara Kingsolver

I know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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Novelist Rare Person Writing
If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Jobs Standing Stink
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
How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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Foolish Losing Loss
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Growing Safe Water
If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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Art Bread Real
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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Book Reading Writing
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
You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don’t attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
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Group Needs World
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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Dream Hope Life Lesson
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman’s coal buttons.
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Black Eye Geometric Running Shape White
From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Fallen Tree Trouble
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger
Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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Environmental Feelings Ideas
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want

What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.

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