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People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.

Barbara Kingsolver

Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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Contagious Done Sleep
I’m widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I’m not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.
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New People Something Writing
Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
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Animal Song Vegetables
It’s terrible to lose somebody, but it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse.
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People Terrible Thinking
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
I’ve about decided that’s the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you’re a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
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Feelings People Sweaters
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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Errors People Sin
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
Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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Automobile Body Feet Human Two
A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
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Lifetime Terror Thinking
There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
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Believe Grief Track
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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Fountain People Thinking Want
I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
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Poetry Summer Thinking
In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
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Long Passion Running
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Family Inspiring Mothers Day
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.
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Air Both Grief Real Thing

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