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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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Novelist
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Annapolis
Maryland
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Loose lips sink ships.
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Ah, the mysterious croak. Here today, gone tomorrow. It's the best reason I can think of to throw open the blinds and risk belief. Right now, this minute, time to move out into the grief and glory. High tide.
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I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.
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I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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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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Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?
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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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For scientists, reality is not optional.
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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 know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.
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A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn't do.
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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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I believe with all my heart in delivering on my contract with my readers. They've got plenty of other things to do, so I had better give them a reason to turn every one of these 550 pages. This is my promise: I solemnly swear I'll make you laugh out loud at least once, cry a little in private, and burn whatever you left on the stove.
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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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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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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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Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.
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I'm never going to tell the reader what to believe I'm going to examine these characters that believe different ways, and examine their motives.
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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