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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

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
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Family Inspiring Mothers Day
Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It’s the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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Looks Patience World
Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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Contagious Done Sleep
The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman’s coal buttons.
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Black Eye Geometric Running Shape White
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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Notebook Silence 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
People ask without wanting to know.
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Ask Knows People
I’ve about decided that’s the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you’re a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
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Feelings People Sweaters
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Earth Men Sound
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
What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Kindness Simple Want
A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
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Lifetime Terror Thinking
Last time I talked to her she didn’t sound like herself. She’s depressed. It’s awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they’re no good.
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People Running 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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