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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same

Barbara Kingsolver

Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe
We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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Believe Literature Should
Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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Dog Voice Water
A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Book Jumping Magic
From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Fallen Tree Trouble
In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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Careers Jobs Stress
My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Nightmares Nothing Stuck Worst
Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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Contagious Done Sleep
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
Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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Day Diagonal Human Nature
Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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Everything Right Sure Travel
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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Book Reading Writing
Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Knives Memories Novelist
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Prayer Transactions

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