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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need

Barbara Kingsolver

The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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Artist Novelist Writing
The bad thing about small-town life is that everybody knows your business…I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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Business Know Obsession Small Suppose Town
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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Art Bread Real
Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It’s the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn’t do.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Lifetime Terror Thinking
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 learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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Book Reading Writing
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Knows Pretending
There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Cancer Depression Sadness
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Prayer Transactions
My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Nightmares Nothing Stuck Worst
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Change Forgiveness Moving
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
There are some who’d hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think’s been too lucky.
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Kindness Rocks Thinking

Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need

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