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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need

Barbara Kingsolver

Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Adults Children People
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Important Pieces Stories
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
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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Borders Country Trying
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Dream Rabbits Soul
I know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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Novelist Rare Person Writing
Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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Dream Inspiring Running
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
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
My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Nightmares Nothing Stuck Worst
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
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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Book Reading Writing
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
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Empathy Literature People
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
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

Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need

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