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There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.

Barbara Kingsolver

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
Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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Everything Right Sure Travel
The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking
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
There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Cancer Depression Sadness
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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Bird Book Want
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Determine Used World
Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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Empty House Lying
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
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Funny Life Running
Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.
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Cities Firsts Groups
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Balance Expectations Pajamas
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
A sound-bite culture can’t discuss science very well. Exactly what we’re losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can’t be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.
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Causes Evening Sound
He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Life Need Rub Soul
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Found Rocks Swimming

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