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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Wanting
Asks
Without
People

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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.
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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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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 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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It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Americans who read and think are patriots of the first order. The kind who know enough to roll their eyes whenever anyone tries to claim sole custody of the flag and weild it as a blunt instrument. There are as many ways to love America as there are Americans, and our country needs us all.
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Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
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Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious.
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If I had to give up my life for anything, it would have to have the resilience of hope, the elation of new literacy, the brilliant life of a field of flowers, the elementary kindness of bread. Nothing short of that. It would have to be something as sure as love.
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He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions.
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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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I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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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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I don't look like who I am.
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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in your brain and in your hands.
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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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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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