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Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Moved
Force
Culture
Past

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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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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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This Forest eats itself and lives forever.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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In fact, one of the things that I really love about literary fiction is that it's one of the few kinds of writing that doesn't tell us what to think or what to buy or what to wear. We're surrounded by advertising.
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Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in your brain and in your hands.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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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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We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.
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Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.
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You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.
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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 reason most people have kids is because they get pregnant.
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There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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If it's important, your heart remembers.
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...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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