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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

You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don’t attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
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Group Needs World
A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Flower Making Love Way
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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Inspirational Learning Trying
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking
It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Dream Rabbits Soul
It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Get One Thing Over
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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Black Eye Geometric Running Shape White
School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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Education Order School
A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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Busybodies Hazards Thinking
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
… Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, ‘so far from everything?’ When I hear this question over the phone, I’m usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
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Garden Running Thinking
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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Life Thing World Wrong
Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down.” – Mrs. Brown
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Needs Pull Shepherds Ups
There are some who’d hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think’s been too lucky.
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Kindness Rocks 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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