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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.

Barbara Kingsolver

Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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Feet Feminist Girl
Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man’s skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people’s back yards.
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Father Heart Men
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
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Ethics Waiting Work Writing
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
It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Get One Thing Over
It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Homecoming Memories Mindfulness
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Anticipation Hope Life
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Childhood Transition Unnoticed
But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.
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Job Mother Running
organization is the religion of the single parent.
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Insuperable Organization Parent Single
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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Heart Moving Pain
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger
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
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Adults Children People
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Empathy Literature People

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