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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
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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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Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.
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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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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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my own relationships with the animals in my life are absurdly complex: Some I love, some I eat, and the scraps left over from the ones I eat, I feed to the ones I love.
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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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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What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to bend its edge. But most won't even stand close to the blade. I'm one of those. We don't bend anything.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.
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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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Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party to relations with a failed outcome. Or say I was afflicted with Africa like a bout of a rare disease from which I have not managed a full recovery.
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Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.
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Everything truly important is washable.
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I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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If it's important, your heart remembers.
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If you can't dress expensive, dress memorable.
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... Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, 'so far from everything?' When I hear this question over the phone, I'm usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
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