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I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.

Barbara Kingsolver

A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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Book Jumping Magic
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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Errors People Sin
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
Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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Day Diagonal Human Nature
I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
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Poetry Summer Thinking
It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Changed Frightening Love Things
Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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Empty House Lying
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Adults Children People
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
Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Dream Inspiring Running
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
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
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
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
No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
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Before Human Unnoticed World
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking

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