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In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Right
Make
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Life
World
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(on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries.
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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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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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my own relationships with the animals in my life are absurdly complex: Some I love, some I eat, and the scraps left over from the ones I eat, I feed to the ones I love.
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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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organization is the religion of the single parent.
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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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I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow...I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.
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I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it intently political. I'm just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.
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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.
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No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.
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Root out all the to be verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No It was or they are or I am. Don't let it be, make it happen.
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God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.
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A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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