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Barbara Kingsolver

It’s one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Else One Thing Somewhere
Maybe life doesn’t get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we’re willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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Grows Willing Wonder
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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Empathy Eye Looks
It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.
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Thinking Wise Writing
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.
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Circumstances Given Turns
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Anticipation Hope Life
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
He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Believe Father Mistake
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
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Life Lucky Trying
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
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Knives Memories Novelist
The thing is, it’s my own fault. I just can’t put up with a person that won’t go out of his way for me. And that’s what a man is. Somebody that won’t go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.
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Fault Men Way
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Family Inspiring Mothers Day
As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer’s long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn’t touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn’t stop.
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Dark Grief Moving
This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.
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Dark Mouth Scent

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