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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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Annapolis
Maryland
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Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.
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Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.
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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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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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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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God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.
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No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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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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Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
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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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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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A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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