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The talkers are rising above the thinkers.

Barbara Kingsolver

Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down.” – Mrs. Brown
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Needs Pull Shepherds Ups
The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Important Knows Persons
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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Doorways Starting Thinking
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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Dream Hope Life Lesson
…prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.
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Heart Summer Wings
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
If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Jobs Standing Stink
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once
Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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Dirt might Today
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
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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Alive Different Views
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
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.
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Dark Mouth Scent
Don’t wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
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Ethics Waiting Work Writing

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