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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.

Barbara Kingsolver

Many of us who aren’t farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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Past Real Secret
Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Always Downstream Else Someone
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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Life Out Views Work
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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Artist Novelist Writing
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
Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.
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Alone Being Life Writing
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Charity Needs Want
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
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Found Rocks Swimming
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
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Meaningful Pain Spiritual
Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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Day Diagonal Human Nature
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
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe
I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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Political Thinking Writing
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.
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Book Jumping Magic

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