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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
People
Wanting
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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.
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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.
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Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good.
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You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don't attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
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Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.
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Everything truly important is washable.
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We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.
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In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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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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the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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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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He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes,' he still loves to say, as often as possible. 'It's hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes.
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