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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.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
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Annapolis
Maryland
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Speak
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Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sand bars to the sea.
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I think that when people read fiction, they're really reading for wisdom. I am. That's what most of us really love. If we read a novel that rocks our world, it's because there's something in it that we didn't know already. Not just information but really wisdom - sort of what to do with our information. And wisdom comes from experience.
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There is something in us that loves certain disasters and the fever of this moment and surrendering to that.
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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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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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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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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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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.
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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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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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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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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best.
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