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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
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Annapolis
Maryland
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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good.
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People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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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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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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God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
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I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.
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Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It's more like conversation, raising new questions and inspiring you to answer them for yourself.
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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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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there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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Everything truly important is washable.
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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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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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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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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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I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
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School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
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