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I prefer to remain anomalous.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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Annapolis
Maryland
Anomalous
Prefer
Remain

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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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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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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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High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.
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It's terrible to lose somebody, but it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got to be so much worse.
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He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.
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There is something in us that loves certain disasters and the fever of this moment and surrendering to that.
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Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.
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A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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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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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people's back yards.
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The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.
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Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.
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Arterial-plaque specials that save minutes now can cost years, later on.
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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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