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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
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Annapolis
Maryland
Least
Hope
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How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best.
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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.
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If it's important, your heart remembers.
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The reason most people have kids is because they get pregnant.
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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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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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I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.
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If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
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Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people's back yards.
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A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
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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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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.
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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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Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.
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I think that when people read fiction, they're really reading for wisdom. I am. That's what most of us really love. If we read a novel that rocks our world, it's because there's something in it that we didn't know already. Not just information but really wisdom - sort of what to do with our information. And wisdom comes from experience.
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Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
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