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People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Sins
Errors
Sin
Read
Love
People

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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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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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Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.
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Scientific illiteracy in our populations is leaving too many of us unprepared to discuss or understand much of the damage we are wreaking on our atmosphere, our habitat, and even the food that enters our mouths.
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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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A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn't do.
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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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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
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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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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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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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