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Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.

Barbara Kingsolver

Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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Intention Peacefulness Purpose
The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business…I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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Business Know Obsession Small Suppose Town
Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I just do it.
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Airplane Staring Steps
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
I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?
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Pet Python Television
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
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
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
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 happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Community People
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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Cure First Kill
It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Get One Thing Over
I know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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Novelist Rare Person Writing
We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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Animal Born Mammals
Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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Cost Greed Money
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

Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.

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