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Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
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Annapolis
Maryland
Animal
Expecting
Everything
Pretending
Even
Surely
Unexpected
Feigning
Thanks
Carelessly
Surprise
Vegetables
Miracle
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Saying
Wiser
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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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School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.
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If someone does learn about the world from reading a novel of mine, that makes me very happy. It's probably not what brings me into the novel in the first place - I usually am pulled in by some big question about the world and human nature that I'm not going to resolve in the course of the novel. But I'm very devoted to getting my facts straight.
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But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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You force people to stop asking questions, and before you know it they have auctioned off the question mark, or sold it for scrap. No boldness. No good ideas for fixing what's broken in the land. Because if you happen to mention it's broken, you are automatically disqualified.
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There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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It is completely usual for me to get up in the morning, take a look around, and laugh out loud.
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If it's important, your heart remembers.
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there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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