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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

I know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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Novelist Rare Person Writing
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Book Life People Uncertainty
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Doe Numbers Revenge
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
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
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Daughter Day Mom Mother
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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Book Reading Writing
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
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Life Lucky Trying
Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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Creativity People Writing
In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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Careers Jobs Stress
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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Errors People Sin
If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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Tact Toes Walks
Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes
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Ada Balance Trying
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger
Everything truly important is washable.
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Housework Important
The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Community People

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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