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Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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Annapolis
Maryland
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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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If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.
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I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.
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If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.
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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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there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark!
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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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God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
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I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they're feeling because that's how I read the seed catalogs in January.
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Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.
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If it's important, your heart remembers.
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The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by the EPA as carcinogenic in humans.
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A flower is a plant's way of making love.
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Morality is not a large, constructed *thing* you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in your brain and in your hands.
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If I had to give up my life for anything, it would have to have the resilience of hope, the elation of new literacy, the brilliant life of a field of flowers, the elementary kindness of bread. Nothing short of that. It would have to be something as sure as love.
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I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.
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Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.
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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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The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here.
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There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.
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