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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.

Barbara Kingsolver

A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Busybodies Hazards Thinking
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
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Enterprise Life Threatening
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Childhood Transition Unnoticed
It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Get One Thing Over
What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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might Reality Space
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect Time Writing
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Knows Pretending
He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Believe Father Mistake
Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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Doorways Starting Thinking
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.
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Cities Firsts Groups
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Circumstances Given Turns
Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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Cost Greed Money
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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Meaningful Pain Spiritual

Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.

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