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I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.

Barbara Kingsolver

There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect Time Writing
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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Errors People Sin
This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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Believe Country States Thinking United
The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Important Knows Persons
But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.
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Job Mother Running
I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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Library Mind Soul
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
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Found Rocks Swimming
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
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
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
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Life Lucky Trying
Everything truly important is washable.
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Housework Important
I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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Government Treats Way
Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
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Borders Country Trying
…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Moving Slides Tasks
It’s terrible to lose somebody, but it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse.
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People Terrible Thinking

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