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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Escape
Books
Read
Book
Life
People
Uncertainties
Uncertainty

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Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.
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Memories do not always soften with time some grow edges like knives.
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I don't look like who I am.
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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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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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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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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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you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece
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High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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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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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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...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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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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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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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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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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If it's important, your heart remembers.
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