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It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.

Barbara Kingsolver

I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
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
A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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Busybodies Hazards Thinking
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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Notebook Silence Writing
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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Heart Moving Pain
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Charity Needs Want
What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Book Fall Rocks
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe
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
You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
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Ideas Life Mother No Own
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
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Always Body Fenceline Stories
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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Animal Average Vacation
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 way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Blow Differences Way

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