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Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
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Annapolis
Maryland
Memorable
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I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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The longer you live, the more likely you are to have something to say.
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...whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you.
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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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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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I write every moment that is humanly possible. I write every day and every night. The only discipline I lack is the discipline is to quit.
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Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sand bars to the sea.
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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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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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the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.
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Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on.
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This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take me in.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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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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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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