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Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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it takes your sleeping self years to catch up to where you really are. ... when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were. It's a kind of jet lag of the consciousness.
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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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Independence is a complex word in a foreign tongue. To resist occupation, whether you're a nation or merely a woman, you must understand the language of your enemy. Conquest and liberation and democrac and divorce are words that mean squat, basically, when you have hungry children and clothes to get out on the line and it looks like rain.
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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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For scientists, reality is not optional.
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The way I see it, a person isn't nothing more than a scarecrow... The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they're stuck up there on.
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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.
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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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Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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If it's important, your heart remembers.
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.
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We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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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 can think of no honorable answer. Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste, while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone dust to quiet the fire of an empty stomach lining? There is nothing about the United States I can really explain to this child of another world.
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Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious.
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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.
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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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Sometimes I prayed for Baby Jesus to make me good, but Baby Jesus didn't.
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The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering. Yes, maybe we'd like to be able to get places quickly, and carry things in both hands but only because we have to keep up with the rest of you ... We would rather be just like us, and have that be all right.
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