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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Much
Injuries
Successes
Injury
Balance
Power

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Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.
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I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.
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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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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.
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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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God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
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Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people's back yards.
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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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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Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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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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A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right.
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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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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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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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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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The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep.
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Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
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