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…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.

Barbara Kingsolver

The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Important Pieces Stories
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?
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Pet Python Television
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
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Meaningful Pain Spiritual
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
Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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Believe Deserve Luck
What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
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Book Fall Rocks
All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
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Politician Promise War
I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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Decided Dresses Memorable
I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they’re feeling because that’s how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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Eye Hands Heart
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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Artist Novelist Writing
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Criminal Inspirational Memories Mind
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
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Earth Men Sound
It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Changed Frightening Love Things

…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.

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…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.

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