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If it’s important, your heart remembers.

Barbara Kingsolver

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
Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.
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Boys Eden Girl
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
There are some who’d hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think’s been too lucky.
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Kindness Rocks Thinking
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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Artist Novelist Writing
He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Life Need Rub Soul
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect Time Writing
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 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
Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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Believe Deserve Luck
If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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Art Bread Real
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Determine Used World
Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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Fortune How Know Same Wear
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

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