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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.

Barbara Kingsolver

Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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Empty House Lying
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 most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Important Pieces Stories
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
From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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Kitchen Memories Men
… 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
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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Errors People Sin
Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Driving Honk Jesus Love
The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Important Knows Persons
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Charity Needs Want
You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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might Next Splits
Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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Fortune How Know Same Wear
Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.
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Doors Insomnia Light
…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Moving Slides Tasks
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
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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Empathy Eye Looks

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