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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 could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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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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restraint equals indulgence
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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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Most of the girls my age, or even younger, have babies. They appear way too young to be married, till you look in their eyes. Then you'll see it. Their eyes look happy and sad at the same time, but unexcited by anything, shifting easily off to the side as if they've already seen most of what there is. Married eyes.
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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
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What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
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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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The longer you live, the more likely you are to have something to say.
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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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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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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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Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts.
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...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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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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How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer's block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don't. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.
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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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Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in your brain and in your hands.
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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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