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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
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Fortune
Wear
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My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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The way I see it, a person isn't nothing more than a scarecrow... The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they're stuck up there on.
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Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past
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Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts.
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Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people's back yards.
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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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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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I'm never going to tell the reader what to believe I'm going to examine these characters that believe different ways, and examine their motives.
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If I had to give up my life for anything, it would have to have the resilience of hope, the elation of new literacy, the brilliant life of a field of flowers, the elementary kindness of bread. Nothing short of that. It would have to be something as sure as love.
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If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.
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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill.
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The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here.
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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.
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How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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