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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.

Barbara Kingsolver

Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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Automobile Body Feet Human Two
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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Animal Average Vacation
Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.
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Alone Being Life 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
It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Everything Freedom Give Great Love
Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
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Ethics Waiting Work Writing
I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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Government Treats Way
What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Kindness Simple Want
When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.
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Everyday Want Window
The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Important Knows Persons
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Circumstances Given Turns
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect Time Writing
You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
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Kids Sorry Two
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
A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Flower Making Love Way

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