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…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.

Barbara Kingsolver

Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Animal Skills Vegetables
This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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Believe Country States Thinking United
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Criminal Inspirational Memories Mind
You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one’s own.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Ideas Life Mother No Own
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Feeling Good Life Throwing
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
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Found Rocks Swimming
Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down.” – Mrs. Brown
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Needs Pull Shepherds Ups
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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Errors People Sin
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
One of the very first things I figured out about life…is that it’s better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you’re hopeful, you have more fun.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Fun Hopeful Positive
I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Inspirational Learning Trying
What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Book Fall Rocks
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
Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don’t know what I’m looking for. I just do it.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Airplane Staring Steps
As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Animal Plant Thinking
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.
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Doe Numbers Revenge

…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.

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…nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.

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