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Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
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Important
Heart
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The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.
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If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.
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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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This Forest eats itself and lives forever.
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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market.
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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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(on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries.
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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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Morning always comes.
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Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.
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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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Hallie and I... were all there was. The image in the mirror that proves you are still here. We had exactly one sister apiece. We grew up knowing the simple arithmetic of scarcity: A sister is more precious than an eye.
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It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.
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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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Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
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Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on.
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A flower is your cousin...Sometimes a person has got to take a life, like a chicken's or a hog's when you need it...But nobody is so hungry they need to kill a flower. Cherokee great-grandmother
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The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best.
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