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the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
Barbara Kingsolver
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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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Annapolis
Maryland
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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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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Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.
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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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We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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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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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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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.
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A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world. But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after--oh, that' s love by a different name.
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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails.
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Hallie and I... were all there was. The image in the mirror that proves you are still here. We had exactly one sister apiece. We grew up knowing the simple arithmetic of scarcity: A sister is more precious than an eye.
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He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.
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It is completely usual for me to get up in the morning, take a look around, and laugh out loud.
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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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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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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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I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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If it's important, your heart remembers.
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