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Barbara Kingsolver

Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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Feet Feminist Girl
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Fallen Tree Trouble
You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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Crazy People Self
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
How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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Foolish Losing Loss
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
there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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Dog People Political
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Kindness Simple Want
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe
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
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
You think you’re the foreigner here, and I’m the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I’m a foreigner, too.
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People President Thinking
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
You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don’t attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
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Group Needs World

Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.

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