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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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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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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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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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Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party to relations with a failed outcome. Or say I was afflicted with Africa like a bout of a rare disease from which I have not managed a full recovery.
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There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.
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A flower is a plant's way of making love.
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When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.
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Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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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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The longer you live, the more likely you are to have something to say.
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You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails.
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We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece
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They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
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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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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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