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I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.

Barbara Kingsolver

What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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might Reality Space
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Important Knows Persons
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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Animal Average Vacation
Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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Believe Heart Kids
Height isn’t something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.
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Basketball Girl Nice
I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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Art Failing Political
I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
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Mountain Moving Winning
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Balance Expectations Pajamas
You don’t think you’ll live past it and you don’t really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that’s still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
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Grief Past Thinking
Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Driving Honk Jesus Love
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
People ask without wanting to know.
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Ask Knows People
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable
I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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Book Expectations People
A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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Doe Dog Thinking

I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.

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