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

Barbara Kingsolver

All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
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Politician Promise War
Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Always Downstream Else Someone
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
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Knows Pretending
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
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
I know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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Novelist Rare Person Writing
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
It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Dream Rabbits Soul
How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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Foolish Losing Loss
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Doe Numbers Revenge
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Childhood Transition Unnoticed
It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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Enough People Wells
The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Community People
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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A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.

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