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

Barbara Kingsolver

A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
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Lifetime Terror Thinking
From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Fallen Tree Trouble
The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Honesty Needs Truth
It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Dream Rabbits Soul
Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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Ada Balance Trying
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
I didn’t study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction in the scientific way. I love invention, obviously; I love creation of character. But I do feel very rooted in the real world, even in the way that I create characters.
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Real School Writing
He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.
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Believe Father Mistake
I’m widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I’m not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.
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New People Something Writing
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Family Inspiring Mothers Day
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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might Next Splits
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
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

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

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