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Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It’s more like conversation, raising new questions and inspiring you to answer them for yourself.

Barbara Kingsolver

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down.” – Mrs. Brown
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Needs Pull Shepherds Ups
All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
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Politician Promise War
I’m widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I’m not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.
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New People Something Writing
A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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Doe Dog Thinking
I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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Library Mind Soul
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business…I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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Business Know Obsession Small Suppose Town
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Determine Used World
It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Homecoming Memories Mindfulness
I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they’re feeling because that’s how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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Eye Hands Heart
They all attended Hester’s church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
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Church Pyramid Scheme
organization is the religion of the single parent.
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Insuperable Organization Parent Single
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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Discipline Funny Things Writing
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Heart Moving Pain

Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It’s more like conversation, raising new questions and inspiring you to answer them for yourself.

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Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It’s more like conversation, raising new questions and inspiring you to answer them for yourself.

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