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The talkers are rising above the thinkers.

Barbara Kingsolver

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
Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
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Change Forgiveness Moving
Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Driving Honk Jesus Love
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Farmers Farms Virginia
Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It’s just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
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Animal Love Making Photography
Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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Looks Patience World
If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Jobs Standing Stink
To think is not always to see.
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Always Thinking Visible
He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Life Need Rub Soul
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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Life Out Views Work
I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it “intently political.” I’m just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.
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Character Grief Writing
Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn’t it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
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Civilization Kids Two
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect Time Writing
You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
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Kids Sorry Two
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

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