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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Life
Touched
Passed
History
Different
Every
Way

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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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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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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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I write every moment that is humanly possible. I write every day and every night. The only discipline I lack is the discipline is to quit.
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If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
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As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn't touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn't stop.
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I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer's block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don't. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.
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The way I see it, a person isn't nothing more than a scarecrow... The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they're stuck up there on.
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Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past
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Scientific illiteracy in our populations is leaving too many of us unprepared to discuss or understand much of the damage we are wreaking on our atmosphere, our habitat, and even the food that enters our mouths.
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Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure.
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High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
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When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.
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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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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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...whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you.
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If it's important, your heart remembers.
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