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

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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

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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I just do it.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I just do it.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Airplane Staring Steps
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.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

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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Needs
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.

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She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Found Rocks Swimming
You think you’re the foreigner here, and I’m the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I’m a foreigner, too.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

You think you’re the foreigner here, and I’m the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I’m a foreigner, too.
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President
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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Kids Two
It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.

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It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.
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Wells
We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.

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We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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Should
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.

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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.
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Everything
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Balance Expectations Pajamas
Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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Intention Peacefulness
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.

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The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Pieces Stories
A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.

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A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
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Lifetime Terror
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
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Running
Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That’s what it’s like in my head. The light stays on.
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Doors Insomnia
The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking

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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