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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
Offer
Offers
Best
Work
Think
Thinking

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A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn't do.
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It is completely usual for me to get up in the morning, take a look around, and laugh out loud.
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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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Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.
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Like Daniel she enteres the lions' den, but lacking Daniel's pure and unblemished soul, Ada is spiced with the flavors of vice that make for a tasty meal. Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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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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Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.
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When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.
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Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.
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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
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I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.
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The past is all we know of the future.
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My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.
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