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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.

Barbara Kingsolver

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
Now, see, that’s why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy…the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn’t agree with you, all that’s left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.
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Guy Idaho Like Neighbor People
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
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Important Pieces Stories
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
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Meaningful Pain Spiritual
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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Careers Jobs Stress
A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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Doe Dog Thinking
Many of us who aren’t farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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Past Real Secret
organization is the religion of the single parent.
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Insuperable Organization Parent Single
Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Cancer Depression Sadness
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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Heart Moving Pain
Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Always Downstream Else Someone
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Criminal Inspirational Memories Mind
There are some who’d hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think’s been too lucky.
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Kindness Rocks Thinking
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Earth Men Sound

The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.

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