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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
Things
Life
World
Wrong

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...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.
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One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you're hopeful, you have more fun.
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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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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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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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How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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You force people to stop asking questions, and before you know it they have auctioned off the question mark, or sold it for scrap. No boldness. No good ideas for fixing what's broken in the land. Because if you happen to mention it's broken, you are automatically disqualified.
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If it's important, your heart remembers.
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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.
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It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
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Tomorrow these villagers would carry their secret icons into the church without any priest and light the candles themselves, moving together in single-minded grace. Like the school of the fish, so driven to righteousness they could flout the law, declare the safety of their souls, then go home and destroy the evidence.
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For scientists, reality is not optional.
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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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If I had to give up my life for anything, it would have to have the resilience of hope, the elation of new literacy, the brilliant life of a field of flowers, the elementary kindness of bread. Nothing short of that. It would have to be something as sure as love.
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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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