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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.

Barbara Kingsolver

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
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
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 considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
I didn’t study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction in the scientific way. I love invention, obviously; I love creation of character. But I do feel very rooted in the real world, even in the way that I create characters.
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Real School Writing
Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I just do it.
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Airplane Staring Steps
As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer’s long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn’t touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn’t stop.
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Dark Grief Moving
There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Always Body Fenceline Stories
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Book Life People Uncertainty
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Determine Used World
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Childhood Transition Unnoticed
My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Nightmares Nothing Stuck Worst
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
You don’t think you’ll live past it and you don’t really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that’s still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
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Grief Past Thinking

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