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My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.
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Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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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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Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it.
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Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.
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...whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you.
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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear up in shock and slide over into another channel. The human mind seems doomed to believe, as simply as a rooster believes, that where we are now is the only possibility
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Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
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Americans who read and think are patriots of the first order. The kind who know enough to roll their eyes whenever anyone tries to claim sole custody of the flag and weild it as a blunt instrument. There are as many ways to love America as there are Americans, and our country needs us all.
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This Forest eats itself and lives forever.
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Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.
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There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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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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I'm never going to tell the reader what to believe I'm going to examine these characters that believe different ways, and examine their motives.
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.
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