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…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.

Barbara Kingsolver

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Criminal Inspirational Memories Mind
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
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Farmers Farms Virginia
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation
…prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.
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Heart Summer Wings
You think you’re the foreigner here, and I’m the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I’m a foreigner, too.
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People President Thinking
Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man’s skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people’s back yards.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Father Heart Men
To people who think of themselves as God’s houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
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Land Stupid Thinking
People ask without wanting to know.
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Ask Knows People
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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Book Reading Writing
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
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
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once
A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Flower Making Love Way
Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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Contagious Done Sleep
Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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Betrayal Heads Perfect Tails

…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.

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