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I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.

Barbara Kingsolver

Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Change Forgiveness Moving
It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Homecoming Memories Mindfulness
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
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
I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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Inspirational Learning Trying
Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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Day Diagonal Human Nature
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Farmers Farms Virginia
Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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Dirt might Today
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
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Knives Memories Novelist
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Dream Hope Life Lesson
Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Always Downstream Else Someone
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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Animal Average Vacation
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Cure First Kill
there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I’m concerned that’s like accusing a dog of having a bark!
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Dog People Political

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