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A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.

Barbara Kingsolver

The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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Artist Novelist Writing
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
A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Flower Making Love Way
Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
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Kings Mind Poison
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
I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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Decided Dresses Memorable
One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
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Fun Hopeful Positive
Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Always Downstream Else Someone
Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.
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Blow Blue Sky
…prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.
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Heart Summer Wings
There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Always Body Fenceline Stories
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Anticipation Hope Life
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once
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
From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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Kitchen Memories Men
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Childhood Transition Unnoticed

A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.

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