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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.

Barbara Kingsolver

Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Animal Miracle Vegetables
Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
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Creativity People Writing
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Criminal Inspirational Memories Mind
Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It’s the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Animal Miracle Vegetables
You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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Crazy People Self
I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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Library Mind Soul
Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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Doorways Starting Thinking
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
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Book Reading Writing
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
As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Animal Plant Thinking
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once
It’s terrible to lose somebody, but it’s also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that’s got to be so much worse.
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People Terrible Thinking
What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.
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Kindness Simple Want
It’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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Else One Thing Somewhere
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Childhood Transition Unnoticed
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Dresses Expensive Memorable

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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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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