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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.

Barbara Kingsolver

As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Animal Plant Thinking
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
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Animal Skills Vegetables
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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Betrayal Heads Perfect Tails
The way I see it, a person isn’t nothing more than a scarecrow… The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they’re stuck up there on.
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Blow Differences Way
Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Always Downstream Else Someone
There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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Home Moon Stars
I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Political Thinking Writing
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Dream Grows Out Right Separate
Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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Dream Inspiring Running
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation
Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Driving Honk Jesus Love
You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don’t attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Group Needs World
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Notebook Silence Writing
I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Art Failing Political

This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.

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