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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
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Life
People

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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head.
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Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to bend its edge. But most won't even stand close to the blade. I'm one of those. We don't bend anything.
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If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.
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Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the trashcan before it finally begins to work. It's discouraging, but necessary to write those pages. I try to consider them pages -100 to zero of the novel.
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.
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I don't look like who I am.
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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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there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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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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I believe that the people who survive a cataclysm, rather than those who stand by and analyze it, are nearly always the more credible witnesses to their own history.
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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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It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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