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If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
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Annapolis
Maryland
Art
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Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious.
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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
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Ah, the mysterious croak. Here today, gone tomorrow. It's the best reason I can think of to throw open the blinds and risk belief. Right now, this minute, time to move out into the grief and glory. High tide.
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They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
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The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.
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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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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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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn't touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn't stop.
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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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Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It's just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
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There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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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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Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.
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the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill.
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Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.
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