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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
Passed
History
Different
Every
Way
Life
Touched

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I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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A flower is your cousin...Sometimes a person has got to take a life, like a chicken's or a hog's when you need it...But nobody is so hungry they need to kill a flower. Cherokee great-grandmother
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A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right.
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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 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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Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.
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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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But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
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Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It's just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
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The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here.
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People ask without wanting to know.
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The longer you live, the more likely you are to have something to say.
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The past is all we know of the future.
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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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It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise, ultimately defiant act of loving one thing and then another, loving our way back to life.
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A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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In fact, one of the things that I really love about literary fiction is that it's one of the few kinds of writing that doesn't tell us what to think or what to buy or what to wear. We're surrounded by advertising.
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The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails.
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