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Barbara Kingsolver

You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Crazy People Self
Height isn’t something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.
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Basketball Girl Nice
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
To think is not always to see.
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Always Thinking Visible
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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Animal Average Vacation
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.
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Cities Firsts Groups
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
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
organization is the religion of the single parent.
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Insuperable Organization Parent Single
Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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Empty House Lying
How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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Bird Book Want
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.
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Dream Inspiring Running
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Knows Pretending
From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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Kitchen Memories Men
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Book Life People Uncertainty
Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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Contagious Done Sleep

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