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Barbara Kingsolver

High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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Fashion Past Salad
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me
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
To think is not always to see.
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Always Thinking Visible
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Criminal Inspirational Memories Mind
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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Artist Novelist Writing
Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.
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Else Happensm Something Thinking
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
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Balance Expectations Pajamas
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!
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Dog People Political
Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Determine Used World
I didn’t study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction in the scientific way. I love invention, obviously; I love creation of character. But I do feel very rooted in the real world, even in the way that I create characters.
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Real School Writing
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
Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.
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Alone Being Life Writing
Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same
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Fortune How Know Same Wear
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

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