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Barbara Kingsolver

Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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Education Order School
A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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Busybodies Hazards Thinking
The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Community People
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Charity Needs Want
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
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Daughter Day Mom Mother
Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
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Joy Men Rather Submission
I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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Art Failing Political
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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Fountain People Thinking Want
Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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Dog Voice Water
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
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Kings Mind Poison
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Criminal Inspirational Memories Mind
What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Kindness Simple Want
I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
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Political Thinking Writing
There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.
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Believe Grief Track

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