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

Barbara Kingsolver

Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Determine Used World
Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
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Kings Mind Poison
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
Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn’t it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
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Civilization Kids Two
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
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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Environmental Feelings Ideas
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Doe Numbers Revenge
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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Book Reading Writing
It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Changed Frightening Love Things
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
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Criminal Inspirational Memories Mind
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Knives Memories Novelist
Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man’s skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people’s back yards.
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Father Heart Men
Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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Looks Patience World

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

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