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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

Barbara Kingsolver

I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
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
It’s terrible to lose somebody, but it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse.
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People Terrible Thinking
Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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Ada Balance Trying
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Earth Men Sound
I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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Library Mind Soul
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Doe Numbers Revenge
I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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Decided Dresses Memorable
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
A sound-bite culture can’t discuss science very well. Exactly what we’re losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can’t be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.
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Causes Evening Sound
School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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Education Order School
If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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Tact Toes Walks
It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Everything Freedom Give Great Love
Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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Environmental Feelings Ideas
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once

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