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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

Barbara Kingsolver

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
Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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Believe Heart Kids
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
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
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Ideas Life Mother No Own
I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
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Mountain Moving Winning
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Knives Memories Novelist
It’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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Else One Thing Somewhere
One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
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Fun Hopeful Positive
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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Animal Average Vacation
What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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might Reality Space
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
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Book Life People Uncertainty
Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
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Borders Country Trying
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Growing Safe Water

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