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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Contain
Dread
Salvation
Changes
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May

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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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I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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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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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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In fact, one of the things that I really love about literary fiction is that it's one of the few kinds of writing that doesn't tell us what to think or what to buy or what to wear. We're surrounded by advertising.
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Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin.
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If someone does learn about the world from reading a novel of mine, that makes me very happy. It's probably not what brings me into the novel in the first place - I usually am pulled in by some big question about the world and human nature that I'm not going to resolve in the course of the novel. But I'm very devoted to getting my facts straight.
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The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
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Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.
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...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.
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It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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