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School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.

Barbara Kingsolver

It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Changed Frightening Love Things
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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Enough People Wells
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Circumstances Given Turns
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 grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke.
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Air Hot Ignorance
It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Everything Freedom Give Great Love
I’ve about decided that’s the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you’re a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
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Feelings People Sweaters
I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don’t move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
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Mountain Moving Winning
Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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Automobile Body Feet Human Two
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Charity Needs Want
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Believe Literature Should
To people who think of themselves as God’s houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.
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Land Stupid Thinking
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
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Alive Different Views
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

School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.

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