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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

Barbara Kingsolver

The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Balance Injury Success
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
I’m widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I’m not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.
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New People Something Writing
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Charity Needs Want
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
This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.
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Dark Mouth Scent
Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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Automobile Body Feet Human Two
Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man’s skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people’s back yards.
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Father Heart Men
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.
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Air Hot Ignorance
You don’t think you’ll live past it and you don’t really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that’s still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
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Grief Past Thinking
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
Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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Pace Sugar Way
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Honesty Needs Truth
the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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Errors Limited Resources Spiritual
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once

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