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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
Uncertainties
Uncertainty
Escape
Books
Read
Book
Life
People

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If you can't dress expensive, dress memorable.
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For scientists, reality is not optional.
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I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.
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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
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Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of view.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
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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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Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.
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Root out all the to be verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No It was or they are or I am. Don't let it be, make it happen.
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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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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
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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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The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.
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Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt.
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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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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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...whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you.
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