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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't but we wear it all the same

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
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Annapolis
Maryland
Fortune
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Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.
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The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.
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My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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I believe that the people who survive a cataclysm, rather than those who stand by and analyze it, are nearly always the more credible witnesses to their own history.
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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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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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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.
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Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on.
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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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A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right.
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The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by the EPA as carcinogenic in humans.
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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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Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure.
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As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn't touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn't stop.
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Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.
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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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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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