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Barbara Kingsolver

I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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Art Failing Political
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
I’ve about decided that’s the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you’re a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
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Feelings People Sweaters
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
The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking
If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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Tact Toes Walks
Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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Empty House Lying
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Earth Men Sound
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
the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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Errors Limited Resources Spiritual
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
organization is the religion of the single parent.
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Insuperable Organization Parent Single
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
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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Life Thing World Wrong
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
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Meaningful Pain Spiritual
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

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