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If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.

Barbara Kingsolver

There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Always Body Fenceline Stories
A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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Busybodies Hazards Thinking
Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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Grows Willing Wonder
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
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Daughter Day Mom Mother
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
A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Flower Making Love Way
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Prayer Transactions
There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
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Believe Grief Track
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Life Lucky Trying
Height isn’t something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.
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Basketball Girl Nice
It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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Enough People Wells
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect Time Writing
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Knows Pretending
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Doe Numbers Revenge
Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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Believe Heart Kids

If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.

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