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For scientists, reality is not optional.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
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Annapolis
Maryland
Reality
Optional
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The longer you live, the more likely you are to have something to say.
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In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take me in.
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A flower is a plant's way of making love.
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I can think of no honorable answer. Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste, while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone dust to quiet the fire of an empty stomach lining? There is nothing about the United States I can really explain to this child of another world.
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Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It's just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
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I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.
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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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Independence is a complex word in a foreign tongue. To resist occupation, whether you're a nation or merely a woman, you must understand the language of your enemy. Conquest and liberation and democrac and divorce are words that mean squat, basically, when you have hungry children and clothes to get out on the line and it looks like rain.
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I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't but we wear it all the same
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restraint equals indulgence
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The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep.
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In fact, one of the things that I really love about literary fiction is that it's one of the few kinds of writing that doesn't tell us what to think or what to buy or what to wear. We're surrounded by advertising.
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When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven
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The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
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If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.
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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
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It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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