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Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.

Barbara Kingsolver

We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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Children Littles Magic
How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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Foolish Losing Loss
What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
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Book Fall Rocks
It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Dream Rabbits Soul
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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Creativity People Writing
A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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Doe Dog Thinking
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
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Childhood Transition Unnoticed
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Important Knows Persons
There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Always Body Fenceline Stories
This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.
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Heart Mean Moving
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
A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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Busybodies Hazards Thinking

Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.

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Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.

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