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He needs to go rub his soul against life.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Soul
Needs
Life

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They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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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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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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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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I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.
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The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best.
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...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.
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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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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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there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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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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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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Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.
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Tomorrow these villagers would carry their secret icons into the church without any priest and light the candles themselves, moving together in single-minded grace. Like the school of the fish, so driven to righteousness they could flout the law, declare the safety of their souls, then go home and destroy the evidence.
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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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I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it intently political. I'm just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.
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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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Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin.
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