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It’s frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.

Barbara Kingsolver

There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Home Moon Stars
Does a man become a revolutionary out of the belief he’s entitled to joy rather than submission?
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Joy Men Rather Submission
The thing is, it’s my own fault. I just can’t put up with a person that won’t go out of his way for me. And that’s what a man is. Somebody that won’t go out of his way for you. I bet it says that in the dictionary.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Fault Men Way
If you’re standing in the manure pile, it’s somebody’s job to mention the stink.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Jobs Standing Stink
How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Bird Book Want
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
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn’t rip off.
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Book Library Rip
Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can’t persist much longer. If it does, then we won’t.
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Environmental Feelings Ideas
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Bird Nests Safe
Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Empathy Fiction Stranger
It’s what you do that makes your soul.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Dream Rabbits Soul
We agreed with him in principal – we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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Children Littles Magic
I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer’s block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don’t. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Block Jobs Waiting
Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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Cancer Depression Sadness
The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don’t know.
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Important Knows Persons
I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Allies Imperfect Like Me

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