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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

The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Earth Men Sound
The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking
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
Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe
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
Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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Contagious Done Sleep
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
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
I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it “intently political.” I’m just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.
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Character Grief Writing
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Book Life People Uncertainty
Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it’s going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.
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Real Thinking Writing
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Important Pieces Stories
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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Errors People Sin
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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Book Reading Writing
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

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