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Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.

Barbara Kingsolver

Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you’re contagious.
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Contagious Done Sleep
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Book Library Rip
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Change May Salvation
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I’d written.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Book Reading Writing
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
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Life Lucky Trying
You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next.
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might Next Splits
Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It’s peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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Intention Peacefulness Purpose
The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.
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Differences Father Tasks
If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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Tact Toes Walks
He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Life Need Rub Soul
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Prayer Transactions
I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.
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Decided Dresses Memorable
Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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Betrayal Heads Perfect Tails
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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Funny Life Running
Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Animal Miracle Vegetables
I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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Art Failing Political

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