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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

Believe Moving Writing
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
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Empathy Literature People
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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Life Out Views Work
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
…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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Kindness Momentous Shoulder World
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation
Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
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Animal Song Vegetables
I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?
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Pet Python Television
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable
I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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Political Thinking Writing
The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Important Knows Persons
Last time I talked to her she didn’t sound like herself. She’s depressed. It’s awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they’re no good.
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People Running Thinking
This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.
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Dark Mouth Scent
We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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Children Littles Magic
Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
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Kings Mind Poison
There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Cancer Depression Sadness

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