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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

A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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Busybodies Hazards Thinking
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
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Everything Freedom Give Great Love
Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It’s just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
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Animal Love Making Photography
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.
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Book Doubt Writing
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Childhood Transition Unnoticed
You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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might Next Splits
Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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Fortune How Know Same Wear
You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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Crazy People Self
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
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Earth Men Sound
Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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Intention Peacefulness Purpose
Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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Betrayal Heads Perfect Tails
He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Life Need Rub Soul

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

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