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I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
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Annapolis
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The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing just gets bigger. Something will eventually bring down the charming, infuriating naïveté of Americans that allows us our blithe consumption and cheerful ignorance of the secret ugliness that bring us whatever we want.
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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer's block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don't. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.
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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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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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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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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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I believe that the people who survive a cataclysm, rather than those who stand by and analyze it, are nearly always the more credible witnesses to their own history.
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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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Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past
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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.
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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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Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
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A flower is a plant's way of making love.
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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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The reason most people have kids is because they get pregnant.
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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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Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of view.
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You force people to stop asking questions, and before you know it they have auctioned off the question mark, or sold it for scrap. No boldness. No good ideas for fixing what's broken in the land. Because if you happen to mention it's broken, you are automatically disqualified.
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