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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.
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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by the EPA as carcinogenic in humans.
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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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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a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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Hallie and I... were all there was. The image in the mirror that proves you are still here. We had exactly one sister apiece. We grew up knowing the simple arithmetic of scarcity: A sister is more precious than an eye.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other.
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The longer you live, the more likely you are to have something to say.
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The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can kill.
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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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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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Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts.
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