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

Barbara Kingsolver

Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Cancer Depression Sadness
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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Environmental Feelings Ideas
Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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Believe Heart Kids
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.
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Animal Love Making Photography
As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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Animal Plant Thinking
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.
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Eye Hands Heart
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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Kings Mind Poison
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
Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.
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Book Doubt Writing
Many of us who aren’t farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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Past Real Secret
From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Fallen Tree Trouble
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Doe Numbers Revenge
organization is the religion of the single parent.
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Insuperable Organization Parent Single
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Knives Memories Novelist
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Honesty Needs Truth

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

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