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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!

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
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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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Americans who read and think are patriots of the first order. The kind who know enough to roll their eyes whenever anyone tries to claim sole custody of the flag and weild it as a blunt instrument. There are as many ways to love America as there are Americans, and our country needs us all.
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It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.
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Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.
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The longer you live, the more likely you are to have something to say.
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We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I knew the weight was there but it didn't touch me. Only when I stopped did the slick, dark stuff of it come floating around my face, catching my arms and throat till I began to drown. So I just didn't stop.
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I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
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I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.
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The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering. Yes, maybe we'd like to be able to get places quickly, and carry things in both hands but only because we have to keep up with the rest of you ... We would rather be just like us, and have that be all right.
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I'm never going to tell the reader what to believe I'm going to examine these characters that believe different ways, and examine their motives.
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