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You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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Annapolis
Maryland
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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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Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.
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... Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, 'so far from everything?' When I hear this question over the phone, I'm usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
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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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restraint equals indulgence
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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.
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I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.
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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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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world. But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after--oh, that' s love by a different name.
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There are some who'd hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think's been too lucky.
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Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear up in shock and slide over into another channel. The human mind seems doomed to believe, as simply as a rooster believes, that where we are now is the only possibility
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Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.
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This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market.
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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 know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow...I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.
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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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