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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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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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Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin.
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Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.
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it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.
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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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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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Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it.
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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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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the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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I write every moment that is humanly possible. I write every day and every night. The only discipline I lack is the discipline is to quit.
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One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you're hopeful, you have more fun.
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The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing just gets bigger. Something will eventually bring down the charming, infuriating naïveté of Americans that allows us our blithe consumption and cheerful ignorance of the secret ugliness that bring us whatever we want.
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It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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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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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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He needs to go rub his soul against life.
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