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

Barbara Kingsolver

Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Cure First Kill
Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It’s just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
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Animal Love Making Photography
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Homecoming Memories Mindfulness
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable
Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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Believe Deserve Luck
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
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Circumstances Given Turns
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
To people who think of themselves as God’s houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
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Land Stupid Thinking
The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Community People
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
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe
Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
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Joy Men Rather Submission
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

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