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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
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Thinking
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Offers
Best
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Do you think its possible to live without wanting to put your name on your paintings? To belong to a group so securely you don't need to rise above it?
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People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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It's very important to distinguish between innocence and naivete. The innocent do not deserve to be the victims of violence. But only the naive refuse to think about the origins of violence and to pursue the possibility that the genesis of that hatred could be addressed.
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A flower is a plant's way of making love.
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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
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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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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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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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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 live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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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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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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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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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 grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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