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The past is all we know of the future.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
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Annapolis
Maryland
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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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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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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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It is completely usual for me to get up in the morning, take a look around, and laugh out loud.
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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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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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The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.
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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
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Americans who read and think are patriots of the first order. The kind who know enough to roll their eyes whenever anyone tries to claim sole custody of the flag and weild it as a blunt instrument. There are as many ways to love America as there are Americans, and our country needs us all.
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It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise, ultimately defiant act of loving one thing and then another, loving our way back to life.
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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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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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Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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