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Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.

Barbara Kingsolver

From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Fallen Tree Trouble
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Charity Needs Want
It’s terrible to lose somebody, but it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse.
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People Terrible Thinking
You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

might Next Splits
Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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Environmental Feelings Ideas
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Cure First Kill
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
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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Group Needs World
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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Character Grief Writing
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
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
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Honesty Needs Truth
Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Cities Firsts Groups
It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Changed Frightening Love Things

Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.

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