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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

Barbara Kingsolver

Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down.” – Mrs. Brown
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Needs Pull Shepherds Ups
It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Changed Frightening Love Things
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
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
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
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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Fountain People Thinking Want
Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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Dog Voice Water
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
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
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Empathy Literature People
There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Always Body Fenceline Stories
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Adults Children People
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
A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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Book Jumping Magic
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 do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

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