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Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.

Barbara Kingsolver

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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Book Reading Writing
The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking
Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
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Borders Country Trying
They all attended Hester’s church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
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Church Pyramid Scheme
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Honesty Needs Truth
Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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Automobile Body Feet Human Two
organization is the religion of the single parent.
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Insuperable Organization Parent Single
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
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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Heart Moving Pain
What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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might Reality Space
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
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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Perfect Time Writing
From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Fallen Tree Trouble
the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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Errors Limited Resources Spiritual
Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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Day Diagonal Human Nature
Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it’s going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Real Thinking Writing

Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.

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Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.

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