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

Barbara Kingsolver

Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Animal Miracle Vegetables
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Life Out Views Work
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
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
What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Book Fall Rocks
I didn’t study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction in the scientific way. I love invention, obviously; I love creation of character. But I do feel very rooted in the real world, even in the way that I create characters.
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Real School Writing
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
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Important Pieces Stories
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
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
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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Cure First Kill
This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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Believe Country States Thinking United
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People

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

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