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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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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.
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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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Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.
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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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I believe with all my heart in delivering on my contract with my readers. They've got plenty of other things to do, so I had better give them a reason to turn every one of these 550 pages. This is my promise: I solemnly swear I'll make you laugh out loud at least once, cry a little in private, and burn whatever you left on the stove.
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you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece
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a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.
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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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I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
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I don't look like who I am.
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The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing just gets bigger. Something will eventually bring down the charming, infuriating naïveté of Americans that allows us our blithe consumption and cheerful ignorance of the secret ugliness that bring us whatever we want.
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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.
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The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.
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Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.
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Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.
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