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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

A sound-bite culture can’t discuss science very well. Exactly what we’re losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can’t be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.
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Causes Evening Sound
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect Time Writing
It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Changed Frightening Love Things
…prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.
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Heart Summer Wings
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
Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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Betrayal Heads Perfect Tails
I’m widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I’m not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.
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New People Something Writing
No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
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Before Human Unnoticed World
Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn’t it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
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Civilization Kids Two
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
There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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Eggs Life Perfect
Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
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Change Forgiveness Moving
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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Life Thing World Wrong
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
To think is not always to see.
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Always Thinking Visible
It’s a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can’t begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
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Discipline Funny Things Writing
If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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Art Bread Real
If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Jobs Standing Stink
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Important Pieces Stories
A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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Busybodies Hazards Thinking
People ask without wanting to know.
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Ask Knows People
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
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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Everything Right Sure Travel
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
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
Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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Creativity People Writing

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