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There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Nations
Powerful
History
Behave
Part
Impact
May
Havens
Believe
Haven
Always
Nation
Told

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It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering. Yes, maybe we'd like to be able to get places quickly, and carry things in both hands but only because we have to keep up with the rest of you ... We would rather be just like us, and have that be all right.
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...whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
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People ask without wanting to know.
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High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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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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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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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Americans who read and think are patriots of the first order. The kind who know enough to roll their eyes whenever anyone tries to claim sole custody of the flag and weild it as a blunt instrument. There are as many ways to love America as there are Americans, and our country needs us all.
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We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
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Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.
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Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It's just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
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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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The reason most people have kids is because they get pregnant.
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