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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
Read
Love
People
Sins
Errors
Sin

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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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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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A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world. But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after--oh, that' s love by a different name.
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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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I have my own sheep and I literally sheer the sheep and knot sweaters for friends and family from scratch.
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Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it.
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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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This Forest eats itself and lives forever.
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Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.
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Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It's more like conversation, raising new questions and inspiring you to answer them for yourself.
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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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But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.
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The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing just gets bigger. Something will eventually bring down the charming, infuriating naïveté of Americans that allows us our blithe consumption and cheerful ignorance of the secret ugliness that bring us whatever we want.
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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best.
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Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.
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