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To think is not always to see.

Barbara Kingsolver

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
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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Fortune How Know Same Wear
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect Time Writing
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Balance Injury Success
He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Life Need Rub Soul
When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.
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Air Hot Ignorance
Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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Feet Feminist Girl
When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.
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Everyday Want Window
They all attended Hester’s church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
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Church Pyramid Scheme
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Charity Needs Want
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it’s going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.
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Real Thinking Writing
From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Fallen Tree Trouble
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
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe
You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
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Ideas Life Mother No Own
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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Empathy Eye Looks
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Important Pieces Stories
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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Fountain People Thinking Want
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
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Animal Skills Vegetables
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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Dog Voice Water
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

To think is not always to see.

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