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I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.

Barbara Kingsolver

Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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Contagious Done Sleep
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger
the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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Errors Limited Resources Spiritual
You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
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Ideas Life Mother No Own
There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Always Body Fenceline Stories
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
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Important Pieces Stories
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
If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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Art Bread Real
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
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Empathy Literature People
From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Fallen Tree Trouble
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Book Life People Uncertainty
…prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.
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Heart Summer Wings
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
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Anticipation Hope Life

I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.

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