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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
World
Eaters
Determines
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(on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries.
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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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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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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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People ask without wanting to know.
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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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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear up in shock and slide over into another channel. The human mind seems doomed to believe, as simply as a rooster believes, that where we are now is the only possibility
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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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Memories do not always soften with time some grow edges like knives.
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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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In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take me in.
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
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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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Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.
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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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