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Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.
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I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.
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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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Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin.
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I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it intently political. I'm just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.
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The longer you live, the more likely you are to have something to say.
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It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
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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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Global commerce is driven by a single conviction: the inalienable right to earn profit, regardless of any human cost.
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You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails.
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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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My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit.
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A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.
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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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Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
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Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage.
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Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the trashcan before it finally begins to work. It's discouraging, but necessary to write those pages. I try to consider them pages -100 to zero of the novel.
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From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
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