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Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.

Barbara Kingsolver

My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Nightmares Nothing Stuck Worst
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Farmers Farms Virginia
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Always Body Fenceline Stories
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Doe Numbers Revenge
It’s terrible to lose somebody, but it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse.
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People Terrible Thinking
I didn’t study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction in the scientific way. I love invention, obviously; I love creation of character. But I do feel very rooted in the real world, even in the way that I create characters.
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Real School Writing
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Prayer Transactions
Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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Dream Inspiring Running
Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
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Dream Grows Out Right Separate
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
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Charity Needs Want
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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Believe Country States Thinking United
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening

Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.

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