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Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
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Annapolis
Maryland
Impossible
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Root out all the to be verbs in your prose and bludgeon them until dead. No It was or they are or I am. Don't let it be, make it happen.
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Ah, the mysterious croak. Here today, gone tomorrow. It's the best reason I can think of to throw open the blinds and risk belief. Right now, this minute, time to move out into the grief and glory. High tide.
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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.
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The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.
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In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.
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There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.
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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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I don't look like who I am.
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You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don't attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
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Morning always comes.
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Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in no uncertain terms.
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There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
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Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious.
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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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Memories do not always soften with time some grow edges like knives.
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
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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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It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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