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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
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Annapolis
Maryland
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I never think that anything I'm writing is bluntly political in any way. I'm not going for commentary.
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The way I see it, a person isn't nothing more than a scarecrow... The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they're stuck up there on.
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This Forest eats itself and lives forever.
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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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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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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious.
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(on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries.
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Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.
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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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God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
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Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.
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People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
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I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.
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Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin.
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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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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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But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.
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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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...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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