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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
Barbara Kingsolver
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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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Annapolis
Maryland
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Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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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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I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they're feeling because that's how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.
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it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.
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The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
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What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to bend its edge. But most won't even stand close to the blade. I'm one of those. We don't bend anything.
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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.
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Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.
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It's terrible to lose somebody, but it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got to be so much worse.
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How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.
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It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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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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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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... Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, 'so far from everything?' When I hear this question over the phone, I'm usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
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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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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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