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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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Religion

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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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I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.
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Memories do not always soften with time some grow edges like knives.
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The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.
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Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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I believe that the people who survive a cataclysm, rather than those who stand by and analyze it, are nearly always the more credible witnesses to their own history.
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Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.
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What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally speaking, but as a writer I definitely choose the fast car, the impossible rock face, the free fall.
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It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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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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The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.
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Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?
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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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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
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Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.
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Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.
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