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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.

Barbara Kingsolver

It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Homecoming Memories Mindfulness
What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Kindness Simple Want
I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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Decided Dresses Memorable
Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Driving Honk Jesus Love
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Earth Men Sound
I know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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Novelist Rare Person Writing
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
What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
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Book Fall Rocks
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
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Empathy Literature People
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
Everything truly important is washable.
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Housework Important
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
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
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
…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Moving Slides Tasks
It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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Enough People Wells

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.

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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.

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