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You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.

Barbara Kingsolver

I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
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
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect Time Writing
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
My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Nightmares Nothing Stuck Worst
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
To think is not always to see.
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Always Thinking Visible
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
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Kids Sorry Two
You think you’re the foreigner here, and I’m the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I’m a foreigner, too.
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People President Thinking
Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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Cost Greed Money
A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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Busybodies Hazards Thinking
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Book Life People Uncertainty
Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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Day Diagonal Human Nature
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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Life Out Views Work

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