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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Persons
Person
Important
Thing
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Do you think its possible to live without wanting to put your name on your paintings? To belong to a group so securely you don't need to rise above it?
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin.
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My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head.
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I have my own sheep and I literally sheer the sheep and knot sweaters for friends and family from scratch.
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Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.
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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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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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I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
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A flower is a plant's way of making love.
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there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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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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Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.
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This Forest eats itself and lives forever.
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my own relationships with the animals in my life are absurdly complex: Some I love, some I eat, and the scraps left over from the ones I eat, I feed to the ones I love.
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You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.
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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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I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.
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Morning always comes.
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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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