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He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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You don't think you'll live past it and you don't really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that's still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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If someone does learn about the world from reading a novel of mine, that makes me very happy. It's probably not what brings me into the novel in the first place - I usually am pulled in by some big question about the world and human nature that I'm not going to resolve in the course of the novel. But I'm very devoted to getting my facts straight.
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The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
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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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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 don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
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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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But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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I believe that the people who survive a cataclysm, rather than those who stand by and analyze it, are nearly always the more credible witnesses to their own history.
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure.
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He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions.
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I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
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If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.
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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.
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A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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