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You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.

Barbara Kingsolver

People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Errors People Sin
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
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.
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Animal Skills Vegetables
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
It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.
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Thinking Wise Writing
I don’t understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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Art Failing Political
This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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Believe Country States Thinking United
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Book Life People Uncertainty
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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Life Thing World Wrong
I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they’re feeling because that’s how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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Eye Hands Heart
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
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
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!
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Dog People Political
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
Downstream is always someone else’s up.
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Always Downstream Else Someone

You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to run out of people to love.

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