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If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.

Barbara Kingsolver

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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Fountain People Thinking Want
Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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Everything Right Sure Travel
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Cure First Kill
The way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.
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Blow Differences Way
Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Animal Song Vegetables
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
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
… Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, ‘so far from everything?’ When I hear this question over the phone, I’m usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Garden Running Thinking
He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.
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Believe Father Mistake
To think is not always to see.
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Always Thinking Visible
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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Book Reading Writing
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Nightmares Nothing Stuck Worst
There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Always Body Fenceline Stories
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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Errors People Sin

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