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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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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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Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.
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A flower is your cousin...Sometimes a person has got to take a life, like a chicken's or a hog's when you need it...But nobody is so hungry they need to kill a flower. Cherokee great-grandmother
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He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.
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The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep.
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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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God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.
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Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you figure out what you have to say.
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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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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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If someone does learn about the world from reading a novel of mine, that makes me very happy. It's probably not what brings me into the novel in the first place - I usually am pulled in by some big question about the world and human nature that I'm not going to resolve in the course of the novel. But I'm very devoted to getting my facts straight.
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A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
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I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other.
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I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
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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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