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I prefer to remain anomalous.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Anomalous
Prefer
Remain

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it takes your sleeping self years to catch up to where you really are. ... when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were. It's a kind of jet lag of the consciousness.
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I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.
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it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.
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I have my own sheep and I literally sheer the sheep and knot sweaters for friends and family from scratch.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
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Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts.
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I think that when people read fiction, they're really reading for wisdom. I am. That's what most of us really love. If we read a novel that rocks our world, it's because there's something in it that we didn't know already. Not just information but really wisdom - sort of what to do with our information. And wisdom comes from experience.
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There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.
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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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Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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It's very important to distinguish between innocence and naivete. The innocent do not deserve to be the victims of violence. But only the naive refuse to think about the origins of violence and to pursue the possibility that the genesis of that hatred could be addressed.
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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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The longer you live, the more likely you are to have something to say.
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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
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Come to think of it, just about every tool was shaped like either a weenie or a pistol, depending on your point of view.
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If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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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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This Forest eats itself and lives forever.
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