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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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Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It's more like conversation, raising new questions and inspiring you to answer them for yourself.
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The longer you live, the more likely you are to have something to say.
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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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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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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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There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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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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It is completely usual for me to get up in the morning, take a look around, and laugh out loud.
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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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Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.
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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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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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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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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.
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A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.
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Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you figure out what you have to say.
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Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of view.
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God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
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