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You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.

Barbara Kingsolver

I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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Government Treats Way
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
organization is the religion of the single parent.
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Insuperable Organization Parent Single
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Criminal Inspirational Memories Mind
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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Book Reading 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
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
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Funny Life Running
What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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might Reality Space
Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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Dog Voice Water
I know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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Novelist Rare Person Writing
From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Fallen Tree Trouble
Many of us who aren’t farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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Past Real Secret
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation
Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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Looks Patience World
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

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