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It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.

Barbara Kingsolver

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
To think is not always to see.
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Always Thinking Visible
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Balance Expectations Pajamas
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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Notebook Silence Writing
The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business…I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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Business Know Obsession Small Suppose Town
I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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Art Failing Political
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
Last time I talked to her she didn’t sound like herself. She’s depressed. It’s awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they’re no good.
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People Running Thinking
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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Dream Hope Life Lesson
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Family Inspiring Mothers Day
That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent.
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Hands Rain Strong
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
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Alive Different Views
To people who think of themselves as God’s houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
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Land Stupid Thinking
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe
Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.
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Boys Eden Girl

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