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Barbara Kingsolver

People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Book Life People Uncertainty
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Everything Freedom Give Great Love
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
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Determine Used World
What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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might Reality Space
Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it’s going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.
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Real Thinking Writing
There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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Home Moon Stars
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Balance Expectations Pajamas
The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking
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
Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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Intention Peacefulness Purpose
Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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Betrayal Heads Perfect Tails
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
Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
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Dream Grows Out Right Separate
This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.
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Heart Mean Moving

It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

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