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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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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
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Annapolis
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It's terrible to lose somebody, but it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got to be so much worse.
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Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of view.
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The way I see it, a person isn't nothing more than a scarecrow... The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they're stuck up there on.
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I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.
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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.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.
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You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don't attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
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We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
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Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.
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A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right.
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Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.
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You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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