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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
Force
Culture
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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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I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow...I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.
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I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.
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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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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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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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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
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Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.
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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 conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.
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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece
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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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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market.
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