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there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark!

Barbara Kingsolver

If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
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
There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
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Believe Grief Track
The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.
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Appreciation Selfish Wise
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
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
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 Thinking
Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica.
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Middle Night Wonder
I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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Library Mind Soul
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
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
The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking
Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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Dog Voice Water
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
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Borders Country Trying

there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark!

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there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark!

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