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Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.

Barbara Kingsolver

It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Thinking Wise Writing
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.
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Love People Running Trust
Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Always Downstream Else Someone
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Doe Numbers Revenge
Everything truly important is washable.
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Housework Important
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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Errors People Sin
Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It’s the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
He needs to go rub his soul against life.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Life Need Rub Soul
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Balance Injury Success
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Knives Memories Novelist
The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.
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Appreciation Selfish Wise
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Honesty Needs Truth

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