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Barbara Kingsolver

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
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
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Empathy Literature People
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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Errors People Sin
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Found Rocks Swimming
No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
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Before Human Unnoticed World
Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what’s not in it.
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Empty House Lying
Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
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Animal Song Vegetables
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Growing Safe Water
There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Always Body Fenceline Stories
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect Time Writing
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
… Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, ‘so far from everything?’ When I hear this question over the phone, I’m usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
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Garden Running Thinking
Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.
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Cities Firsts Groups
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Doe Numbers Revenge
I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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Government Treats Way
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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Life Thing World Wrong

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