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Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.

Barbara Kingsolver

You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Ideas Life Mother No Own
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Flower Making Love Way
Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.
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Driving Honk Jesus Love
A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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Busybodies Hazards Thinking
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Earth Men Sound
He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.
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Believe Father Mistake
I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Poetry Summer Thinking
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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Errors People Sin
Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Looks Patience World
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don’t know.
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Important Pieces Stories
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.
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Love People Running Trust
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Life Out Views Work
Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Cost Greed Money
I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they’re feeling because that’s how I read the seed catalogs in January.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Eye Hands Heart

Everything you’re sure is right can be wrong in another place.

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