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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.

Barbara Kingsolver

I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Political Thinking Writing
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Balance Expectations Pajamas
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation
there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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Dog People Political
The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Community People
A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Flower Making Love Way
Height isn’t something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.
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Basketball Girl Nice
No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
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Before Human Unnoticed World
Everything truly important is washable.
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Housework Important
The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking
Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Cancer Depression Sadness
How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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Bird Book Want
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
One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
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Fun Hopeful Positive
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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Artist Novelist Writing

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