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Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.

Barbara Kingsolver

If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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Environmental Feelings Ideas
You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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Crazy People Self
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
Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
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Ethics Waiting Work Writing
I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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Political Thinking Writing
How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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Foolish Losing Loss
A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Flower Making Love Way
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
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
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
Everything truly important is washable.
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Housework Important
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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Book Reading Writing
A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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Book Jumping Magic
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
You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.
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Love People Running Trust

Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.

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Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.

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