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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
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Annapolis
Maryland
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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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In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn't occur to them to feel sorry for themselves.
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you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece
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It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
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No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.
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The happiest people are the ones with the most community.
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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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If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
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Memories do not always soften with time some grow edges like knives.
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He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions.
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Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't but we wear it all the same
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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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I prefer to remain anomalous.
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Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure.
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The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
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For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
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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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This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market.
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Everything truly important is washable.
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...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.
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