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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
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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Artist Novelist Writing
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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Life Thing World Wrong
That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent.
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Hands Rain Strong
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
Everything truly important is washable.
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Housework Important
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Determine Used World
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Charity Needs Want
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Circumstances Given Turns
You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don’t attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
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Group Needs World
…prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.
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Heart Summer Wings
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Adults Children People
Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Book Doubt Writing
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
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

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