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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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There are some who'd hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think's been too lucky.
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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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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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organization is the religion of the single parent.
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Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.
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I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.
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Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.
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I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.
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Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.
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you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece
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I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they're feeling because that's how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
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If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.
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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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Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.
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Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.
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If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.
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