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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
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Culture
Past

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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.
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God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
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It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.
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But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.
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Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of view.
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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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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
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The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best.
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...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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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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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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Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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