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Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it’s going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.

Barbara Kingsolver

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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Foolish Losing Loss
Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down.” – Mrs. Brown
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Needs Pull Shepherds Ups
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Family Inspiring Mothers Day
Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
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Dream Grows Out Right Separate
We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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Believe Literature Should
Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn’t it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
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Civilization Kids Two
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
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation
Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Always Downstream Else Someone
Now, see, that’s why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy…the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn’t agree with you, all that’s left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.
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Guy Idaho Like Neighbor People
What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Kindness Simple Want
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
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
I don’t bring expectations to any of my books. I don’t tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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Book Expectations People
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

Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it’s going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.

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Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it’s going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.

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