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Barbara Kingsolver

I’m of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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Library Mind Soul
If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Jobs Standing Stink
To think is not always to see.
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Always Thinking Visible
The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Community People
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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Empathy Eye Looks
Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It’s just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
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Animal Love Making Photography
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Anticipation Hope Life
I’m not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I’m doing.
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Knows Pretending
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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Notebook Silence Writing
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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Animal Average Vacation
You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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Crazy People Self
Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle it back across the border. Any poem I get written down feels like contraband to me.
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Borders Country Trying
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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Cure First Kill
Everything truly important is washable.
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Housework Important
A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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Busybodies Hazards Thinking
I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?
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Pet Python Television

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