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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
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Scientists
Scientist
Reality
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How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.
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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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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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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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organization is the religion of the single parent.
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Americans who read and think are patriots of the first order. The kind who know enough to roll their eyes whenever anyone tries to claim sole custody of the flag and weild it as a blunt instrument. There are as many ways to love America as there are Americans, and our country needs us all.
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Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.
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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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It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
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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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Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.
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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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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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If it's important, your heart remembers.
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Morning always comes.
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