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Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
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Annapolis
Maryland
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!
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Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes to put the animal kingdom to shame, they make love. It's just that catching them in flagrante delicto might require time-lapse photography.
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How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
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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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Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.
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The reason most people have kids is because they get pregnant.
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.
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No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.
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Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it.
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.
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I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.
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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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The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing just gets bigger. Something will eventually bring down the charming, infuriating naïveté of Americans that allows us our blithe consumption and cheerful ignorance of the secret ugliness that bring us whatever we want.
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Literature is one of the few kinds of writing in the world that does not tell you what to buy, want, see, be, or believe. It's more like conversation, raising new questions and inspiring you to answer them for yourself.
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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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Tomorrow these villagers would carry their secret icons into the church without any priest and light the candles themselves, moving together in single-minded grace. Like the school of the fish, so driven to righteousness they could flout the law, declare the safety of their souls, then go home and destroy the evidence.
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