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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Enterprise
Life
Threatening

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Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.
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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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There are some who'd hardly lift a finger for kindness, but they would haul up a load of rock to dump on some soul they think's been too lucky.
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I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow...I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.
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Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past
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There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
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Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you figure out what you have to say.
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You force people to stop asking questions, and before you know it they have auctioned off the question mark, or sold it for scrap. No boldness. No good ideas for fixing what's broken in the land. Because if you happen to mention it's broken, you are automatically disqualified.
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Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly.
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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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Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure.
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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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This Forest eats itself and lives forever.
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It's the same struggle for each of us, and the same path out: the utterly simple, infinitely wise, ultimately defiant act of loving one thing and then another, loving our way back to life.
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Loose lips sink ships.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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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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