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I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. - Barbara Kingsolver
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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. - Barbara Kingsolver
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The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing. - Barbara Kingsolver
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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. - Barbara Kingsolver
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People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around. - Barbara Kingsolver
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It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer. - Barbara Kingsolver
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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all. - Barbara Kingsolver
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To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is! - Barbara Kingsolver
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. - Barbara Kingsolver
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I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control. - Barbara Kingsolver
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. - Barbara Kingsolver
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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive. - Barbara Kingsolver
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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. - Barbara Kingsolver
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water. - Barbara Kingsolver
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. - Barbara Kingsolver
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life. - Barbara Kingsolver
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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. - Barbara Kingsolver
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The truth needs so little rehearsal. - Barbara Kingsolver
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Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers. - Barbara Kingsolver
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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. - Barbara Kingsolver
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws. - Barbara Kingsolver
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