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Barbara Kingsolver

It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Enough People Wells
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
What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Book Fall Rocks
Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It’s just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
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Animal Love Making Photography
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
Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Driving Honk Jesus Love
The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Community People
I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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Government Treats Way
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Knows Pretending
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

Believe Moving Writing
It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.
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Thinking Wise Writing
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It’s the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Important Pieces Stories
Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn’t it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Civilization Kids Two
We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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Believe Literature Should

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