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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
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Annapolis
Maryland
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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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We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
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It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise, ultimately defiant act of loving one thing and then another, loving our way back to life.
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I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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it takes your sleeping self years to catch up to where you really are. ... when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were. It's a kind of jet lag of the consciousness.
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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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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Do you think its possible to live without wanting to put your name on your paintings? To belong to a group so securely you don't need to rise above it?
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Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good.
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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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Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.
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I'm never going to tell the reader what to believe I'm going to examine these characters that believe different ways, and examine their motives.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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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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Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.
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Scientific illiteracy in our populations is leaving too many of us unprepared to discuss or understand much of the damage we are wreaking on our atmosphere, our habitat, and even the food that enters our mouths.
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Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on.
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If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.
Barbara Kingsolver