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I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.

Barbara Kingsolver

Now, see, that’s why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy…the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn’t agree with you, all that’s left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.
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Guy Idaho Like Neighbor People
Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I just do it.
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Airplane Staring Steps
The substance of grief is not imaginary. It’s as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
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Air Both Grief Real Thing
If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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Art Bread Real
If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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Tact Toes Walks
To people who think of themselves as God’s houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
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Land Stupid Thinking
The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Community People
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
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Balance Injury Success
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Knives Memories Novelist
High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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Fashion Past Salad
… Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, ‘so far from everything?’ When I hear this question over the phone, I’m usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
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Garden Running Thinking
You think you’re the foreigner here, and I’m the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I’m a foreigner, too.
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People President Thinking
…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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Kindness Momentous Shoulder World
I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer’s block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don’t. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.
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Block Jobs Waiting
Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down.” – Mrs. Brown
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Needs Pull Shepherds Ups

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