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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
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Annapolis
Maryland
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He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.
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Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious.
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take me in.
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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
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It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.
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In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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I believe with all my heart in delivering on my contract with my readers. They've got plenty of other things to do, so I had better give them a reason to turn every one of these 550 pages. This is my promise: I solemnly swear I'll make you laugh out loud at least once, cry a little in private, and burn whatever you left on the stove.
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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Memories do not always soften with time some grow edges like knives.
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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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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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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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Morning always comes.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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