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I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer’s block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don’t. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.

Barbara Kingsolver

Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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Automobile Body Feet Human Two
People ask without wanting to know.
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Ask Knows People
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
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
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Life Lucky Trying
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
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Borders Country Trying
Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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Dream Inspiring Running
A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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Doe Dog Thinking
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Circumstances Given Turns
This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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Believe Country States Thinking United
I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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Inspirational Learning Trying
The way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.
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Blow Differences Way
Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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Believe Deserve Luck
To think is not always to see.
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Always Thinking Visible
He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Life Need Rub Soul
Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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Doorways Starting Thinking

I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer’s block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don’t. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.

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I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer’s block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don’t. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.

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