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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
Different
Every
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Life
Touched
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History

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Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.
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Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you figure out what you have to say.
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This Forest eats itself and lives forever.
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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people's back yards.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
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Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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It's very important to distinguish between innocence and naivete. The innocent do not deserve to be the victims of violence. But only the naive refuse to think about the origins of violence and to pursue the possibility that the genesis of that hatred could be addressed.
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There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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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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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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Loose lips sink ships.
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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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I have my own sheep and I literally sheer the sheep and knot sweaters for friends and family from scratch.
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It's what you do that makes your soul.
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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.
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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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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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