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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.

Barbara Kingsolver

We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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Believe Literature Should
A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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Busybodies Hazards Thinking
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
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Funny Life Running
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Balance Injury Success
Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Always Downstream Else Someone
I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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Political Thinking Writing
I’ve about decided that’s the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you’re a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
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Feelings People Sweaters
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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Errors People Sin
The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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Animal Average Vacation
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect Time Writing
Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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Day Diagonal Human Nature
A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
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Lifetime Terror Thinking
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
Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.
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Cities Firsts Groups
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe

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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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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