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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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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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Annapolis
Maryland
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There is something in us that loves certain disasters and the fever of this moment and surrendering to that.
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I can think of no honorable answer. Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste, while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone dust to quiet the fire of an empty stomach lining? There is nothing about the United States I can really explain to this child of another world.
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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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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.
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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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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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If I had to give up my life for anything, it would have to have the resilience of hope, the elation of new literacy, the brilliant life of a field of flowers, the elementary kindness of bread. Nothing short of that. It would have to be something as sure as love.
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The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best.
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Most of the girls my age, or even younger, have babies. They appear way too young to be married, till you look in their eyes. Then you'll see it. Their eyes look happy and sad at the same time, but unexcited by anything, shifting easily off to the side as if they've already seen most of what there is. Married eyes.
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When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven
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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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A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever.
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A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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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.
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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've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
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There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.
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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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What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to bend its edge. But most won't even stand close to the blade. I'm one of those. We don't bend anything.
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