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The reason most people have kids is because they get pregnant.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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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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Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
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You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.
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A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn't do.
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In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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It's very important to distinguish between innocence and naivete. The innocent do not deserve to be the victims of violence. But only the naive refuse to think about the origins of violence and to pursue the possibility that the genesis of that hatred could be addressed.
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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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My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head.
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I have my own sheep and I literally sheer the sheep and knot sweaters for friends and family from scratch.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.
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I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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If someone does learn about the world from reading a novel of mine, that makes me very happy. It's probably not what brings me into the novel in the first place - I usually am pulled in by some big question about the world and human nature that I'm not going to resolve in the course of the novel. But I'm very devoted to getting my facts straight.
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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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I struggle with confidence, every time. I’m never completely sure I can write another book. Maybe my scope is too grand, my questions too hard, surely readers won’t want to follow me here. A novel is like a cathedral, it knocks you down to size when you enter into it.
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Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.
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My way of finding a place in this world is to write one.
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