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We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

Barbara Kingsolver

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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Grief Past Thinking
A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Flower Making Love Way
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
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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Life Out Views Work
Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
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Borders Country Trying
Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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Doorways Starting Thinking
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once
Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.
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Boys Eden Girl
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
To think is not always to see.
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Always Thinking Visible
If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Jobs Standing Stink
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
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Adults Children People
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe
Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
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Ethics Waiting Work Writing

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