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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

Barbara Kingsolver

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
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
Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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Political Thinking Writing
We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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Believe Literature Should
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
Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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Betrayal Heads Perfect Tails
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
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Ideas Life Mother No Own
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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Life Thing World Wrong
Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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Cost Greed Money
It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Homecoming Memories Mindfulness
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Prayer Transactions
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Found Rocks Swimming
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
Now, see, that’s why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy…the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn’t agree with you, all that’s left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.
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Guy Idaho Like Neighbor People

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