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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!

Barbara Kingsolver

Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It’s more like conversation, raising new questions and inspiring you to answer them for yourself.
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Believe Moving Writing
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Kindness Simple Want
…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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Kindness Momentous Shoulder World
As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer’s long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn’t touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn’t stop.
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Dark Grief Moving
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
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Changed Frightening Love Things
Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Always Downstream Else Someone
It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Everything Freedom Give Great Love
Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
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
Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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Creativity People Writing
From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Fallen Tree Trouble
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
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Life Lucky Trying

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!

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