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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.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.
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For scientists, reality is not optional.
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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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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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There are some who'd hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think's been too lucky.
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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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Everything truly important is washable.
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Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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It's terrible to lose somebody, but it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got to be so much worse.
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The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.
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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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If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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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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A flower is your cousin...Sometimes a person has got to take a life, like a chicken's or a hog's when you need it...But nobody is so hungry they need to kill a flower. Cherokee great-grandmother
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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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The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best.
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