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Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.

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
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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Empathy Eye Looks
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Circumstances Given Turns
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Childhood Transition Unnoticed
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
In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
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Long Passion Running
… Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, ‘so far from everything?’ When I hear this question over the phone, I’m usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
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Garden Running Thinking
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
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Empathy Literature People
Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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Everything Right Sure Travel
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
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
There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Cancer Depression Sadness
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Earth Men Sound
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
Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
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Animal Song Vegetables

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