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We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.

Barbara Kingsolver

I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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Art Failing Political
Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Always Downstream Else Someone
Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.
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Cities Firsts Groups
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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Bird Book Want
The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Community People
Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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Believe Deserve Luck
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
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Charity Needs Want
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
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Alive Different Views
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Criminal Inspirational Memories Mind
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Determine Used World
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Childhood Transition Unnoticed
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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Empty House Lying

We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.

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