But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

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But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Bagwalas

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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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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

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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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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Making
We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

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We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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Mammals
It’s a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can’t begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.

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It’s a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can’t begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
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Things
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.

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Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Doe Numbers
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.

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Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle
It’s what you do that makes your soul.
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Rabbits
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.

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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

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

Moving
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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Life Lesson
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.

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If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Sweet
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.
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Kids Two
Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.

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Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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Sugar Way
You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.

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You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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might Next Splits
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.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Feelings Sweaters
High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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Salad

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