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My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
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Annapolis
Maryland
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To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
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Loose lips sink ships.
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People ask without wanting to know.
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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.
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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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Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.
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No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.
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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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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Independence is a complex word in a foreign tongue. To resist occupation, whether you're a nation or merely a woman, you must understand the language of your enemy. Conquest and liberation and democrac and divorce are words that mean squat, basically, when you have hungry children and clothes to get out on the line and it looks like rain.
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't but we wear it all the same
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Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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It's what you do that makes your soul.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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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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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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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
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