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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
Sin
Read
Love
People
Sins
Errors

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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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It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn't occur to them to feel sorry for themselves.
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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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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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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by the EPA as carcinogenic in humans.
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The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.
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Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
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It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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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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It is completely usual for me to get up in the morning, take a look around, and laugh out loud.
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Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.
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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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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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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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My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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