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A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.

Barbara Kingsolver

The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Balance Injury Success
When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.
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Air Hot Ignorance
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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Heart Moving Pain
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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Ada Balance Trying
The thing is, it’s my own fault. I just can’t put up with a person that won’t go out of his way for me. And that’s what a man is. Somebody that won’t go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.
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Fault Men Way
Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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Empty House Lying
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
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Animal Skills Vegetables
You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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Crazy People Self
What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Kindness Simple Want
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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Notebook Silence Writing
Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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Day Diagonal Human Nature
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Honesty Needs Truth
Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.
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Blow Blue Sky
It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Get One Thing Over
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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Book Reading Writing

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