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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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It is completely usual for me to get up in the morning, take a look around, and laugh out loud.
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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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If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.
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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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The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
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I can think of no honorable answer. Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste, while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone dust to quiet the fire of an empty stomach lining? There is nothing about the United States I can really explain to this child of another world.
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(on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries.
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Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past
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Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.
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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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Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It's more like conversation, raising new questions and inspiring you to answer them for yourself.
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Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?
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A flower is a plant's way of making love.
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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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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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Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.
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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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I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.
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Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.
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Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on.
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