The substance of grief is not imaginary. It’s as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
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A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.
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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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I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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The thing is, it’s my own fault. I just can’t put up with a person that won’t go out of his way for me. And that’s what a man is. Somebody that won’t go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.
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There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It’s the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.
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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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