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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
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Annapolis
Maryland
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Life
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Wrong
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Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.
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Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure.
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I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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it takes your sleeping self years to catch up to where you really are. ... when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were. It's a kind of jet lag of the consciousness.
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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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There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.
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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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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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But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.
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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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A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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It's very important to distinguish between innocence and naivete. The innocent do not deserve to be the victims of violence. But only the naive refuse to think about the origins of violence and to pursue the possibility that the genesis of that hatred could be addressed.
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a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.
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I believe with all my heart in delivering on my contract with my readers. They've got plenty of other things to do, so I had better give them a reason to turn every one of these 550 pages. This is my promise: I solemnly swear I'll make you laugh out loud at least once, cry a little in private, and burn whatever you left on the stove.
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It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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The way I see it, a person isn't nothing more than a scarecrow... The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they're stuck up there on.
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Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
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