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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
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Annapolis
Maryland
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I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow...I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.
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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing just gets bigger. Something will eventually bring down the charming, infuriating naïveté of Americans that allows us our blithe consumption and cheerful ignorance of the secret ugliness that bring us whatever we want.
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The longer you live, the more likely you are to have something to say.
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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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In fact, one of the things that I really love about literary fiction is that it's one of the few kinds of writing that doesn't tell us what to think or what to buy or what to wear. We're surrounded by advertising.
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a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.
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it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.
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A flower is a plant's way of making love.
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Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.
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I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it intently political. I'm just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.
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Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people's back yards.
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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't but we wear it all the same
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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.
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I think that when people read fiction, they're really reading for wisdom. I am. That's what most of us really love. If we read a novel that rocks our world, it's because there's something in it that we didn't know already. Not just information but really wisdom - sort of what to do with our information. And wisdom comes from experience.
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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!
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God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
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