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God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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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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This Forest eats itself and lives forever.
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He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes,' he still loves to say, as often as possible. 'It's hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes.
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The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best.
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The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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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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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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People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
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Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.
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The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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I write every moment that is humanly possible. I write every day and every night. The only discipline I lack is the discipline is to quit.
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