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Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you figure out what you have to say.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it.
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If you can't dress expensive, dress memorable.
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What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to bend its edge. But most won't even stand close to the blade. I'm one of those. We don't bend anything.
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I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.
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God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.
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Hallie and I... were all there was. The image in the mirror that proves you are still here. We had exactly one sister apiece. We grew up knowing the simple arithmetic of scarcity: A sister is more precious than an eye.
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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’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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organization is the religion of the single parent.
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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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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes,' he still loves to say, as often as possible. 'It's hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes.
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Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best.
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Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
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There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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People ask without wanting to know.
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