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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
Change
May
Contain
Dread
Salvation
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The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here.
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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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Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it.
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High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
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If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.
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Everything truly important is washable.
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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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When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven
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Most of the girls my age, or even younger, have babies. They appear way too young to be married, till you look in their eyes. Then you'll see it. Their eyes look happy and sad at the same time, but unexcited by anything, shifting easily off to the side as if they've already seen most of what there is. Married eyes.
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For scientists, reality is not optional.
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Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.
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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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A flower is a plant's way of making love.
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A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever.
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