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It's what you do that makes your soul.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Rabbits
Makes
Dream
Soul

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In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn't occur to them to feel sorry for themselves.
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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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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin.
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Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.
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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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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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It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise, ultimately defiant act of loving one thing and then another, loving our way back to life.
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My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head.
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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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The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
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There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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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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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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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.
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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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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 know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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If it's important, your heart remembers.
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