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Barbara Kingsolver

Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
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

Dream Inspiring Running
As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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Animal Plant Thinking
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Adults Children People
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Honesty Needs Truth
Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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Empty House Lying
Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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Day Diagonal Human Nature
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Knows Pretending
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Growing Safe Water
A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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Busybodies Hazards Thinking
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 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
I know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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Novelist Rare Person Writing
I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it “intently political.” I’m just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.
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Character Grief Writing
The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking
The substance of grief is not imaginary. It’s as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
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Air Both Grief Real Thing

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