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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Running

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

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

Rocks
Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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Greed
You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Self
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Transactions
Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Vegetables
I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Political
Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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Environmental Feelings
You don’t think you’ll live past it and you don’t really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that’s still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

You don’t think you’ll live past it and you don’t really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that’s still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

She kept swimming out into life because she hadn’t yet found a rock to stand on.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Found Rocks Swimming
Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Doorways Starting
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!

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

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!
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Political
Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Vegetables
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Adults
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you’ll behave to other people.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.
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Politician
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

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

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
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Needs Pull Shepherds Ups

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.

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