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Barbara Kingsolver

School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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Education Order School
Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Always Downstream Else Someone
We’re surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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Believe Literature Should
The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.
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Appreciation Selfish Wise
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Adults Children People
We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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Animal Born Mammals
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Criminal Inspirational Memories Mind
The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman’s coal buttons.
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Black Eye Geometric Running Shape White
I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Prefer Remain
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.
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Day Diagonal Human Nature
Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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Heart Moving Pain
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
There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Always Body Fenceline Stories
Now I’m starting to think he wasn’t supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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Doorways Starting Thinking
Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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Automobile Body Feet Human Two

Downstream is always someone else’s up.

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