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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Birds
Thanks
Bird
Safe
Whatever
Life
Nests

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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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How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party to relations with a failed outcome. Or say I was afflicted with Africa like a bout of a rare disease from which I have not managed a full recovery.
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Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.
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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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organization is the religion of the single parent.
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't but we wear it all the same
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Sometimes I prayed for Baby Jesus to make me good, but Baby Jesus didn't.
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One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you're hopeful, you have more fun.
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If it's important, your heart remembers.
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We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other.
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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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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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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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