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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

Barbara Kingsolver

Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Driving Honk Jesus Love
I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they’re feeling because that’s how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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Eye Hands Heart
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Earth Men Sound
All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
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Politician Promise War
Everything truly important is washable.
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Housework Important
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
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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Life Out Views Work
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Doe Numbers Revenge
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
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 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
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
But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.
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Job Mother Running
I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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Art Failing Political
I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer’s block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don’t. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Block Jobs Waiting
There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Always Body Fenceline Stories

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