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From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Everybody
Makes
Firewood
Fallen
Tree
Trouble

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Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.
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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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I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.
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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you're hopeful, you have more fun.
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He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes,' he still loves to say, as often as possible. 'It's hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes.
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Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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it takes your sleeping self years to catch up to where you really are. ... when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were. It's a kind of jet lag of the consciousness.
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Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
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It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.
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I write every moment that is humanly possible. I write every day and every night. The only discipline I lack is the discipline is to quit.
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A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to bend its edge. But most won't even stand close to the blade. I'm one of those. We don't bend anything.
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There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
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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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Hallie and I... were all there was. The image in the mirror that proves you are still here. We had exactly one sister apiece. We grew up knowing the simple arithmetic of scarcity: A sister is more precious than an eye.
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This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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