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Barbara Kingsolver

When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.
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Air Hot Ignorance
This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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Believe Country States Thinking United
There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Always Body Fenceline Stories
Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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Dirt might Today
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
People ask without wanting to know.
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Ask Knows People
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe
Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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Fortune How Know Same Wear
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Farmers Farms Virginia
A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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Book Jumping Magic
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 Selfish Wise
If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Jobs Standing Stink
A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Flower Making Love Way
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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Balance Injury Success

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