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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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it takes your sleeping self years to catch up to where you really are. ... when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were. It's a kind of jet lag of the consciousness.
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I struggle with confidence, every time. I’m never completely sure I can write another book. Maybe my scope is too grand, my questions too hard, surely readers won’t want to follow me here. A novel is like a cathedral, it knocks you down to size when you enter into it.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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I have my own sheep and I literally sheer the sheep and knot sweaters for friends and family from scratch.
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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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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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There are some who'd hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think's been too lucky.
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Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.
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When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.
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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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Do you think its possible to live without wanting to put your name on your paintings? To belong to a group so securely you don't need to rise above it?
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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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I'm never going to tell the reader what to believe I'm going to examine these characters that believe different ways, and examine their motives.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Once you start cooking, one thing leads to another. A new recipe is as exciting as a blind date. A new ingredient, heaven help me, is an intoxicating affair.
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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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Like Daniel she enteres the lions' den, but lacking Daniel's pure and unblemished soul, Ada is spiced with the flavors of vice that make for a tasty meal. Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness.
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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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If you can't dress expensive, dress memorable.
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Sometimes I prayed for Baby Jesus to make me good, but Baby Jesus didn't.
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