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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

Barbara Kingsolver

Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Blow Blue Sky
The substance of grief is not imaginary. It’s as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
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Air Both Grief Real Thing
Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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Intention Peacefulness Purpose
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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Artist Novelist Writing
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
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
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
All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
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Politician Promise War
…our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Moving Slides Tasks
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
Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they’re afraid to plant themselves?
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Feet Feminist Girl
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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Life Out Views Work
Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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Grows Willing Wonder
Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It’s just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Animal Love Making Photography
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
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

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