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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.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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Doorways Starting Thinking
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history… Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
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Alive Different Views
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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Empty House Lying
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Adults Children People
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Earth Men Sound
I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it “intently political.” I’m just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.
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Character Grief Writing
From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Fallen Tree Trouble
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Growing Safe Water
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation
When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.
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Everyday Want Window
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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Notebook Silence Writing
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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Dream Hope Life Lesson

To think is not always to see.

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