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Barbara Kingsolver

It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Get One Thing Over
You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.
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Love People Running Trust
As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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Animal Plant Thinking
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation
It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Changed Frightening Love Things
Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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Believe Heart Kids
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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Real Thinking Writing
My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Nightmares Nothing Stuck Worst
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
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
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Empathy Literature People
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Determine Used World
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
What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Kindness Simple Want
The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Important Knows Persons
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Balance Expectations Pajamas
Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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Looks Patience World
If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Jobs Standing Stink
A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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Doe Dog Thinking
Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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Grows Willing Wonder
Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Driving Honk Jesus Love
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Important Pieces Stories
What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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might Reality Space
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
This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.
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Heart Mean Moving
Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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Fortune How Know Same Wear
This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.
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Dark Mouth Scent
All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
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Politician Promise War

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