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Barbara Kingsolver

We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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Animal Born Mammals
Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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Contagious Done Sleep
The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Important Knows Persons
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
You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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Crazy People Self
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
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Circumstances Given Turns
There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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Eggs Life Perfect
Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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Empty House Lying
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
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Life Lucky Trying
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
People ask without wanting to know.
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Ask Knows People
You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don’t attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
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Group Needs World
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
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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Discipline Funny Things Writing
Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Always Downstream Else Someone

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