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I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.

Barbara Kingsolver

It’s surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Homecoming Memories Mindfulness
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
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.
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Airplane Staring Steps
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
A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Busybodies Hazards Thinking
Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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Looks Patience World
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.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Alone Being Life Writing
He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Life Need Rub Soul
If you can’t dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Dresses Expensive Memorable
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Change May Salvation
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
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
I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Political Thinking Writing
From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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Kitchen Memories Men
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
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Adults Children People

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