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School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Two
School
Pecking
Great
Humankind
Fifty
Parts
Stand
Education
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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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I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.
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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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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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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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It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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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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I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.
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People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
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The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.
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A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill.
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When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven
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It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
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If I had to give up my life for anything, it would have to have the resilience of hope, the elation of new literacy, the brilliant life of a field of flowers, the elementary kindness of bread. Nothing short of that. It would have to be something as sure as love.
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Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.
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It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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