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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
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Annapolis
Maryland
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restraint equals indulgence
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You force people to stop asking questions, and before you know it they have auctioned off the question mark, or sold it for scrap. No boldness. No good ideas for fixing what's broken in the land. Because if you happen to mention it's broken, you are automatically disqualified.
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It's what you do that makes your soul.
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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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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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It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on.
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I think that when people read fiction, they're really reading for wisdom. I am. That's what most of us really love. If we read a novel that rocks our world, it's because there's something in it that we didn't know already. Not just information but really wisdom - sort of what to do with our information. And wisdom comes from experience.
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You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.
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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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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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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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I don't look like who I am.
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I write every moment that is humanly possible. I write every day and every night. The only discipline I lack is the discipline is to quit.
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Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.
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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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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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...whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you.
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