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Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.

Barbara Kingsolver

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
Everything truly important is washable.
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Housework Important
Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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Day Diagonal Human Nature
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
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Circumstances Given Turns
Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man’s skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people’s back yards.
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Father Heart Men
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
Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect Time Writing
This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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Believe Country States Thinking United
My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Nightmares Nothing Stuck Worst
Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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Ada Balance Trying
Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.
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Book Doubt Writing
I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
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Poetry Summer Thinking
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking

Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.

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