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This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.

Barbara Kingsolver

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
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
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
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Family Inspiring Mothers Day
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Circumstances Given Turns
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Anticipation Hope Life
As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer’s long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn’t touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn’t stop.
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Dark Grief Moving
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Prayer Transactions
…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Moving Slides Tasks
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
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
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
Everything truly important is washable.
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Housework Important
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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Art Failing Political
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Criminal Inspirational Memories Mind
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
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
What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Kindness Simple Want
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
People ask without wanting to know.
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Ask Knows People
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 way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.
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Blow Differences Way
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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Government Treats Way

This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.

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This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.

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