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When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.

Barbara Kingsolver

Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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Dirt might Today
It’s a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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Everything Freedom Give Great Love
… Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, ‘so far from everything?’ When I hear this question over the phone, I’m usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
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Garden Running Thinking
She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn’t.
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Alone Inhumanity Once
Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own.
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Meaningful Pain Spiritual
A writer’s occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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Busybodies Hazards Thinking
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Growing Safe Water
Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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Dog Voice Water
Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
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Animal Song Vegetables
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
What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Book Fall Rocks
Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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Animal Miracle Vegetables
If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
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Jobs Standing Stink
He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Life Need Rub Soul
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Life Thing World Wrong

When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.

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When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.

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