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Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Grows Willing

I didn’t study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction in the scientific way. I love invention, obviously; I love creation of character. But I do feel very rooted in the real world, even in the way that I create characters.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

I didn’t study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction in the scientific way. I love invention, obviously; I love creation of character. But I do feel very rooted in the real world, even in the way that I create characters.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Real
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Adults
We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.

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We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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Littles
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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Running
People ask without wanting to know.

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People ask without wanting to know.
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Knows
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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It’s a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can’t begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
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Things
Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.

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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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Inspiring Running
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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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
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.

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Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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Notebook
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Uncertainty
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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Lucky Trying
As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.

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As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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Greed
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.

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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Threatening
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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Eye Looks

Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.

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