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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
Remain
Anomalous
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A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right.
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I don't look like who I am.
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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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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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But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.
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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
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In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take me in.
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No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
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my own relationships with the animals in my life are absurdly complex: Some I love, some I eat, and the scraps left over from the ones I eat, I feed to the ones I love.
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Memories do not always soften with time some grow edges like knives.
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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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the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners
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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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For scientists, reality is not optional.
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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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Do you think its possible to live without wanting to put your name on your paintings? To belong to a group so securely you don't need to rise above it?
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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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