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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

Barbara Kingsolver

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

Homecoming Memories Mindfulness
Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Always Downstream Else Someone
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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Artist Novelist Writing
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
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger
There are days when I am envious of my hens: when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.
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Eggs Life Perfect
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
That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent.
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Hands Rain Strong
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.
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Believe Father Mistake
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.
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Fun Hopeful Positive
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Charity Needs Want
Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.
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Believe Heart Kids
Everything truly important is washable.
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Housework Important
What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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might Reality Space
The talkers are rising above the thinkers.
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Rise Above Rising Talking
If it’s important, your heart remembers.
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Heart Important Remember
Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Different Life Way
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
Sugar, it’s no parade but you’ll get down the street one way or another, so you’d just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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Pace Sugar Way
I know I’m a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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Novelist Rare Person Writing
They all attended Hester’s church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
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Church Pyramid Scheme
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Honesty Needs Truth
It’s a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can’t begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Discipline Funny Things Writing
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Growing Safe Water
The substance of grief is not imaginary. It’s as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
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Air Both Grief Real Thing
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

Dog People Political
A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Flower Making Love Way

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

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