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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
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Annapolis
Maryland
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it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.
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My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.
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It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise, ultimately defiant act of loving one thing and then another, loving our way back to life.
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He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.
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...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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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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This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market.
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I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.
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If someone does learn about the world from reading a novel of mine, that makes me very happy. It's probably not what brings me into the novel in the first place - I usually am pulled in by some big question about the world and human nature that I'm not going to resolve in the course of the novel. But I'm very devoted to getting my facts straight.
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Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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it takes your sleeping self years to catch up to where you really are. ... when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were. It's a kind of jet lag of the consciousness.
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There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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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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I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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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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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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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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The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best.
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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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