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

Barbara Kingsolver

It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Everything Freedom Give Great Love
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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Cure First Kill
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Important Knows Persons
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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Errors People Sin
Now, see, that’s why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy…the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn’t agree with you, all that’s left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.
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Guy Idaho Like Neighbor People
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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Everyday Want Window
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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Block Jobs Waiting
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
Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Driving Honk Jesus Love
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger
If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Jobs Standing Stink
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect Time Writing
This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Dark Mouth Scent
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe
From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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Kitchen Memories Men

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