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You don't think you'll live past it and you don't really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that's still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Loose lips sink ships.
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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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Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.
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A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever.
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The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.
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Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.
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Memories do not always soften with time some grow edges like knives.
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It's very important to distinguish between innocence and naivete. The innocent do not deserve to be the victims of violence. But only the naive refuse to think about the origins of violence and to pursue the possibility that the genesis of that hatred could be addressed.
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They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
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I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it intently political. I'm just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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my own relationships with the animals in my life are absurdly complex: Some I love, some I eat, and the scraps left over from the ones I eat, I feed to the ones I love.
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We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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If I had to give up my life for anything, it would have to have the resilience of hope, the elation of new literacy, the brilliant life of a field of flowers, the elementary kindness of bread. Nothing short of that. It would have to be something as sure as love.
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Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure.
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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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